Heat-Transfer
and Freestream Turbulence Measurements for Improvement of the Ice Accretion Physical Model
Bragg, M.B., Lee, S. and Henze, C.M.
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
ABSTRACT
Convective heat-transfer measurements were taken on a NACA 0012 airfoil
with leading-edge distributed roughness simulating ice-accretion
roughness. Roughness heights of 0.35 and 0.75 mm were used and tests were
conducted at three tunnel turbulence levels and three Reynolds numbers.
Convective heat-transfer coefficients approached three times the clean
airfoil values over the roughness at a Reynolds number of
2.25x106.
Results with tunnel turbulence values as high as 0.95% had little effect
on the convective heat transfer prior to boundary-layer transition.
Downstream of the roughness the heat transfer was in general less than the
predicted turbulent value. A method for measuring the turbulence level in
an icing tunnel spray cloud with a conventional hot wire is presented.
Preliminary results from the NASA Icing Research Tunnel showed that the
elevated turbulence levels with the spray cloud on are due to the nozzle
air pressure and the presence of the water has only a small effect.