Development of a second generation in-flight icing simulation code

Two-dimensional and quasi-3D in-flight ice accretion simulation codes have been widely used by the aerospace industry for the last two decades as all aid to the certification process. The present paper proposes all efficient numerical method for calculating ice Shapes oil simple or complex 3D geometries. The resulting ice simulation system, FENSAP-ICE, is built in a modular fashion to successively solve each flow impingement and accretion via field models based oil partial differential equations (PDEs). The FENSAP-ICE system results are compared to other numerical and experimental results oil 2D and slightly complex 3D geometries. It is concluded that FENSAP-ICE gives results in agreement with other code calculation results, for the geometries available in the open literature.