Recent Advances in Icing Studies and Energy-Efficient De-Icing/Anti-Icing Technologies
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 650
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational particle dynamics; sticking and spreading of droplets; particle deposition issues in a variety of engineering applications, from the ‘sky’ (turbomachinery) to the ‘ground’ (boilers/combustors); CFD modelling and uncertainty quantification; instrumentations for particle deposition
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Interests: aerodynamics; turbomachinery; multiphase flow; icing
Interests: aircraft icing and anti/de-icing technology; superhydrophobic surface; ice wind tunnel test; numerical simulation of aircraft icing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Icing poses significant challenges in various industrial applications, including aerospace, refrigeration, wind energy, marine operations, and electrical networks. Historically, aircraft icing has played a role in numerous fatal aviation accidents. According to the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States, from 2008 to 2021, an average of four aircraft accidents and five fatalities per year were attributed to in-flight icing. In wind energy, severe icing can reduce annual energy production at wind farm sites by more than 20%. Moreover, with increasing human activities in Arctic regions, icing has been shown to compromise the stability and reliability of marine infrastructure.
To address these challenges, researchers are focusing their efforts toward understanding the icing physics in lab-scale facilities and large-scale wind tunnels and developing advanced numerical models to predict the formation of ice accretion under various conditions. Recent years have also seen the emergence of innovative active and passive de-icing/anti-icing approaches to prevent or remove ice by delaying ice nucleation, retarding ice front propagation, reducing ice adhesion, and promoting melting/drainage.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in both experimental and numerical investigations of icing physics, as well as state-of-the-art energy efficient de-icing/anti-icing technologies. This Special Issue invites original research papers, as well as literature reviews. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Icing wind tunnel techniques;
- Icing detection techniques;
- SLD and ice crystal generation techniques;
- Icing physics;
- Novel icing and de-icing/anti-icing numerical models;
- Energy efficient de-icing/anti-icing technologies.
Dr. Xin Yang
Dr. Wenqiang Zhang
Dr. Dongyu Zhu
Dr. Ningli Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- icing
- de-icing
- anti-icing
- SLD
- ice crystal
- icing physics
- icing thermodynamics
- phase change
- heat/mass transfer
- icing wind tunnel
- icing detection
- CFD
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