Would you have guessed that we use evaporation to deal with in-flight icing? ✈️❄️
A deeper understanding of evaporation, an intricate physical process involving simultaneous heat and mass transfer, will allow us to design more efficient ice protection systems for our aircraft.
🎓Throughout his PhD project, Alessandro will focus on numerical simulations of evaporating liquid films to better understand the involved mechanisms, under typical icing flow conditions. 💧♨️
Modelling of heat and mass transfer over heated evaporating liquid films to predict run back ice shapes
- Improve the estimation of the position of the runback ice shapes downstream of a protection system starting from a bibliographic study initiated at ONERA
- Perform a detailed study of simple configurations
- Study the physics of the transport of steam inside the boundary layer using the multi-species Navier-Stokes equations
Design of an electro-thermal Ice Protection System (PWG3)
- Morency, F., Tezok, F., & Paraschivoiu, I. (2000). Heat and mass transfer in the case of anti-icing system simulation. Journal of Aircraft, 37(2), 245-252 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1999-623
- Bu, X., Lin, G., Shen, X., Hu, Z., & Wen, D. (2020). Numerical simulation of aircraft thermal anti-icing system based on a tight-coupling method. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 148, 119061 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.119061
- Trontin, P., & Villedieu, P. (2014). Heat and mass transfer analogies for evaporation models at high evaporation rate. In 6th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference (p. 2062) https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-2062
