Ice accretion on wings of aircraft is a serious hazard. Large accumulations of ice can destabilize the aircraft and can also negatively influence its aerodynamic performances. The main focus of this paper was to review the effects of Ice accretion on the aerodynamic performance of a wing due to the various geometries of ice, location of ice, type of ice and radius of ice accumulated for various AOA, Re and M. To investigate, various types airfoils were considered whose applications ranged from commercial transport aircraft airfoil, business jet airfoil, rotorcraft airfoil, wind turbine airfoil, multi element airfoil and symmetrical airfoils as well. Also, reviewed about the experiments used to simulate the ice accretions i.e., icing wind tunnel test and computational analysis. Most of the reviewed papers included the wind tunnel testing done in the NASA Lewis IRT to observe the icing patterns & its effect on the aerodynamics of the aircraft and LEWICE code for computational simulation. Majority of the reviewed papers, either included the comparison between the aerodynamics of clean airfoil and ice accreted airfoil, or the comparison between the experimental results and computational results, both of which evidently showed the significant reduction in the performance of an airfoil.

Topics
Wind turbines, Aerodynamics, Aircraft, Rotorcraft, Public and occupational health and safety, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Review
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