Experimental Study of Water Film Dynamics Under Wind Shear and Gravity

Aircraft icing poses a serious threat to flight safety. Unfrozen impinging water on the surface of the aircraft will run back under the effect of high-speed airflow, altering liquid distribution and heat transfer characteristics. In this paper, a series of experiments are conducted over a wide range of wind speeds , film Reynolds numbers , and inclined angles (, , ) to investigate the dynamics of thin water film on an aluminum substrate. The...