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Editorial

Special Issue: Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircrafts

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Aerospace 2021, 8(3), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8030072
Submission received: 4 March 2021 / Accepted: 8 March 2021 / Published: 10 March 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircraft)
In-flight icing for aircrafts is a large concern for all those involved in aircraft operations. This Special Issue assembles a diverse selection of research papers on topics related to the deicing and anti-icing of aircrafts. These topics span experimental, numerical, and data science studies from droplet scale [1,2] to the system level [3,4,5,6], as summarized in Table 1. The editor is pleased to assemble 11 articles in this Special Issue. The readers will enjoy this variety of high-quality research on the deicing and anti-icing of aircrafts.

Funding

No received external funding.

Acknowledgments

The editor wishes to thank all authors who contributed to this Special Issue.

Conflicts of Interest

I declare no conflict of interests.

References

  1. Uranai, S.; Fukudome, K.; Mamori, H.; Fukushima, N.; Yamamoto, M. Numerical Simulation of the Anti-Icing Performance of Electric Heaters for Icing on the NACA 0012 Airfoil. Aerospace 2020, 7, 123. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  2. Hasegawa, M.; Morita, K.; Sakaue, H.; Kimura, S. Pinned Droplet Size on a Superhydrophobic Surface in Shear Flow. Aerospace 2020, 7, 34. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
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  7. Takahashi, T.; Fukudome, K.; Mamori, H.; Fukushima, N.; Yamamoto, M. Effect of Characteristic Phenomena and Temperature on Super-Cooled Large Droplet Icing on NACA0012 Airfoil and Axial Fan Blade. Aerospace 2020, 7, 92. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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  9. Hann, R.; Hearst, R.; Sætran, L.; Bracchi, T. Experimental and Numerical Icing Penalties of an S826 Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers. Aerospace 2020, 7, 46. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  10. Li, S.; Qin, J.; He, M.; Paoli, R. Fast Evaluation of Aircraft Icing Severity Using Machine Learning Based on XGBoost. Aerospace 2020, 7, 36. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  11. Gagnon, D.; Brassard, J.; Ezzaidi, H.; Volat, C. Computer-Assisted Aircraft Anti-Icing Fluids Endurance Time Determination. Aerospace 2020, 7, 39. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
Table 1. Coverage of the Special Issue on Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircrafts.
Table 1. Coverage of the Special Issue on Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircrafts.
CoverageKey FeatureReference
Super-cooled large dropletAnti-icing; Ice accretion; experimental study, numerical simulation[2,7]
Prediction of ice accretionIce accretion; experimental study; numerical simulation; data science study[8,9,10]
Anti-icing systemAnti-icing; ice accretion; numerical simulation; data science study[1,11]
Deicing and anti-icing systemDeicing; anti-icing; ice accretion; experimental study, numerical simulation[3,4,5,6]
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