Fortified LEWICE with viscous effects
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A method for computing the prediction of ice shapes on airfoils and their effects on the airfoil lift and drag coefficients are described. The previously developed LEWICE code has been modified to avoid problems due to multiple stagnation points. The interactive boundary-layer method developed by Cebeci has been incorporated into LEWICE to improve the accuracy of predicting ice shapes as well as to compute the performance characteristics of iced airfoils. The paper also presents ice shapes calculated without and with viscous effects, the consequences for aerodynamic properties, particulary lift and drag, and evaluation of the time steps used in the ice accretion process.
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Calculations of the flows over NACA 4412 and GA(W)-2 airfoils with low-speed flow and over NACA 0012 and RAE 2822 airfoils with transonic flow are reported. They were obtained by solving potential flow and boundary-layer equations, and by solving thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations. The results cover a range of angles of attack up to and including stall and allow the evaluation of the numerical and physical features of the two solution methods. The agreement with measurements is acceptable except between the results of the thin Navier-Stokes equations and measurements in subsonic flow at high angles of attack. The interactive boundary-layer method is considerably more efficient requiring considerably less computer time and storage.