✈️❄️ Ice can change everything in flight!
➡️ My research addresses certification of aircraft icing by developing a modular simulation-based framework that combines CFD icing simulations, icing wind-tunnel experiments, flight dynamics and simulators, and uncertainty analysis. 💧✈️
The aim is to assess flight behavior and certification safety margins earlier and with greater confidence, reducing the need for costly and risky flight tests—accelerating certification in known icing conditions without compromising safety. 🛡️
To introduce virtual certification tools and procedures into in-flight ice accretion and IPS certification
- Definition of metrics that can assess the quality of a simulation compared to reference (experimental) results
- Definition of methods to assess the validity of a simulation when limited or null direct experimental comparison exists. In this process, EASA will provide authority perspective on criteria that must be met
Design of an electro-thermal Ice Protection System (PWG3)
- Arizmendi, B., Morelli, M., Parma, G., Zocca, M., Quaranta, G., Guardone, A. (2021). In-flight Icing: Modeling, Prediction, and Uncertainty. In: Vasile, M. (eds) Optimization Under Uncertainty with Applications to Aerospace Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60166-9_15
- “Preliminary Guidelines for the Rotorcraft Certification by Simulation Process,” 2022 www.rocs-project.org/guidelines/
- ASME, Standard for Verification and Validation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, New York, NY: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009
- Gori, G., Congedo, P. M., Le Maître, O., Bellosta, T., & Guardone, A. (2022). Modeling in-flight ice accretion under uncertain conditions. Journal of Aircraft, 59(3), 799-813. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C036545
