Icing in an engine breather system can block the engine breather pipe, cause excessive crankcase pressure and degrade the engine performance. In this project, a numerical study, experimental tests and CFD analysis are ...

The distortion, drag and break-up of drizzle droplets subjected to strong aerodynamic forces was investigated to understand the pre-impact behaviour of droplets in aircraft icing from supercooled freezing drizzle. The ...

The runback ice phenomenon is well-known for anti-icing or de-icing systems when the system is not evaporating 100% of the water impinging the surface. The water runs back to the point where the added heat no longer ...

In design and development of aircraft, standard practice uses `the icing design envelopes' to select atmospheric conditions for modelling icing encounters. Over the duration of these encounters, atmospheric conditions ...

This dissertation presents a methodology to simulate the dispersion of water droplets in the air flow typical of an Icing Tunnel. It is based on the understanding the physical parameters that influence the uniformity and ...

The work presented in thesis is part of the DANIELA project which aims to replace the current air data system on civil aircrafts with a flush mounted Air Data System (ADS) built around a 3 axis Doppler LIDAR function as ...