Introduction to Aircraft Icing and NASA's Approach to Understanding It

Abstract

This presentation provides an introduction to aircraft icing and describes NASA’s approach to understanding it. The presentation covers various topics on icing. A general overview of different types of icing is provided, which includes airframe icing, jet engine icing, and rotorcraft icing. The presentation discusses NASA’s approach to studying the various forms of aircraft icing, which includes conducting flight tests, performing ground-based icing wind tunnel tests, and developing computational tools that simulate the icing physics. An overview on the future of aviation and icing is provided. The presentation is largely high level, but also provides some technical icing physics discussion.

Author

• Tadas Bartkus Ohio Aerospace Institute

Keywords

• Aircraft Icing
• Icing Facilities
• Rotorcraft Icing
• Engine Icing
• Airframe Icing