Two-dimensional simulation of frost formation on the NACA0012 airfoil under strong convection by using the p-VOF method

Advances in Aerodynamics

Xianghua Xu¹  Xingang Liang¹  Bin Xia² 

[1] Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China;Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China;State Key Laboratory of Aerodynamics, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, 621000, Mianyang, China;

关键词: Frosting;    Simulation;    Airfoil;    VOF;    Strong convection;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42774-021-00075-w

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

A newly developed frosting simulation method, p-VOF method, is applied to simulate the dynamic frost formation on the NACA0012 airfoil under strong convection. The p-VOF method is a pseudo VOF method of the multiphase flow simulation with phase change. By solving a simplified mass conservation equation explicitly instead of the original volume fraction equations in CFD software, the efficiency and robustness of calculation are greatly improved. This progress makes it possible to predict a long-time frost formation. The p-VOF method was successfully applied to the simulation of dynamic frosting on the two-dimensional NACA0012 airfoil under strong convection conditions with constant frost physical properties. The simulation result shows that the average thickness of the frost layer increases, and the frost bulges and flow separation appear earlier, when the airfoil surface temperature decreases or the air humidity increases. The frost bulges and flow separation appear earlier, when the air velocity is faster, the growth rate of the frost layer at the early stage is greater, but the final frost layer is thinner.

【 授权许可】

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