Simulation of heat transfer from hot-air jets impinging a three-dimensional concave surface

Mathieu Fregeau*, Mohammad Gabr, Ion Paraschivoiu, Farooq Saeed

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Abstract

The simulation of heat transfer from hot-air jets impinging a three-dimensional concave surface was developed in order to enhance safety under natural icing conditions. The deployment magnifies a reliable ice-accretion and anti-icing simulation code CANICE geared towards the specific needs of Bombardier Aerospace. Also the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to model the internal hot-air region in conjunction with a 3-D ice-accretion code requires extensive computational resources. The study has used the state-of-the-art commercial CFD software FLUENT, where the software comes with the mesh generator GAMBIT for modeling and meshing geometry. The results showed the decrease in the Nusselt number along with s axis much faster than along y axis. The study also speculated that the use of smaller H is likely to be more effective than increasing jet Mach number or the number of the jets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)721-725
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Aircraft
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada, through a cooperative research and development grant with Bombardier Aerospace. Helpful discussions with Fassi Kafyeke and his team at

Funding Information:
the Advanced Aerodynamics Department, Bombardier Aerospace, are gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals for accomplishing this study.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Aerospace Engineering

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