Applying a modified surface mesh wrapping method for numerical simulation of icing processes

DOI: 10.34759/vst-2020-2-29-36

Аuthors

Gulimovskii I. A.^*, Greben’kov S. A.^**

Central Institute of Aviation Motors named after P.I. Baranov, CIAM, 2, Aviamotornaya str., Moscow, 111116, Russia

*e-mail: brotdieb@yandex.ru
**e-mail: sagrebenkov@ciam.ru

Abstract

Flight safety in drastic meteorological conditions remains an extremely important task to this day. With the advent of high-performance computing software, allowing perform simulation of complex physical phenomena with plausible degree of accuracy, a wide spectrum of research trends, helping specialists all over the world study in most detail those phenomena, which could studied earlier by performing the full-scale experiment, is being opened.

The topic of the presented work is the surface wrapping method (SWM method) adaptation to increase modeling quality of the aircraft icing processes to predict more accurately the places, shape and size of ice deposits for further activities on the anti-icing systems design and testing techniques, including certification ones, development.

The essence of this method consists in transforming created mesh surface to the area of the target object. The original mesh may be of a uniform structure with the same distances between nodes, or an adaptive one with dimensions that are a function of the curvature and characteristic dimensions of the object body. The SWM method mathematical model can be based on nodes displacement along the normal to the target object, or on minimizing the function of the node displacement energy. The resulting offset nodes are used for the object surface mesh restructuring, and building volume elements in the entire area in totality In the framework of icing numerical modeling, elements elongation due to the large curvature of the ice, often inherent in the “glassy” type, may lead at a certain moment to the mesh zone overlapping, formation of closed volumes, elements “degeneration” and other defects. Thus, this method algorithm is supplemented by modifying the separation of the low-quality mesh element into several ones, and preliminary diagnostics of the sharp “peaks” presence, point contact of cells and nodes and determination of macro cavities with their coordinates derivation As the result of the suggested method application, the authors managed to obtain complex shapes of the ice buildups much more closer to the experimental data compared to the conventional smoothing techniques, employed in the majority of computing software.

The above described approach application brings prediction quality of the shape and size of ice deposits to the new level, especially on the thin elements of blades profiles and guide vanes, as well as under icing conditions, when buildups of rather complex shape might occur, including air inclusions inside as well.

Keywords:

adaptation of numerical surface mesh, facet model wrapping method, mesh area restructuring, aircraft elements icing

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