Icing Process of Small Water Droplets Impinging onto a Frozen Cold Plate

摘要

In summary, we reported an icing physics study to quantify the transient phase-changing process within small icing water droplets impinging onto a frozen cold plate to elucidate the underlying physics of the important microphysical processes pertinent to various icing phenomena found in nature, which include power cable icing, wind-turbine icing, and aircraft icing. A lifetime-based MTT technique was used to achieve simultaneous measurements of the droplet size and water temperature within the small icing droplets.