A Study of Scaling for Intercycle Ice Accretion Tests
Andy P. Broeren
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and
Galdemir C. Botura
BF Goodrich
ABSTRACT
The Ruff method with matched scale and reference velocity
was used to determine appropriate 1/2 scale test conditions to simulate
a full-size icing encounter for an NACA 23012 wing section protected with
a pneumatic boot de-icing system. Intercycle ice accretions were recorded
on a 36-in-chord model used to represent 1/2 scale and compared with a hybrid
reference model (full-size leading-edge and truncated aft section) representing
a 72-in-chord full-size airfoil. The intercycle ice thickness and extent
of icing for the scale tests generally compared well with those from the
reference model. However, the scale tests did not reproduce the location
and number of feather rows seen in the reference tests aft of the main ice
shape. Many of the differences observed were believed to result from not
scaling the pneumatic boot design along with the model size for these tests.