New UAV ice tunnel characterization

New UAV ice tunnel characterization

Arrigo Avi, Giuseppe Quaranta, Riccardo Parin

Abstract. In the recent years, the field of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) has shown great technological progresses and many new applications have born. To assess the potential of this technology and to improve the availability and reliability of the rising services it is critical to overcome operational limitations. One key operational hazard is atmospheric in-flight icing, resulting in large aerodynamic penalties, unbalances and other detrimental phenomena that sometimes can lead to catastrophic consequences. In this paper, a new ice tunnel developed in the large hypobaric and climatic chamber of the terraXcube facility of Eurac will be presented. A preliminary characterization and calibration of the system has been also performed following the EASA regulation reported in the Easy Access Rules for Large Rotorcraft (CS-29) (Amendment 6).

Keywords
UAV, Ice Tunnel, Ice Accretion, System Characterization, Climatic Chamber, Hypobaric Chamber

Published online 11/1/2023, 4 pages
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Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Arrigo Avi, Giuseppe Quaranta, Riccardo Parin, New UAV ice tunnel characterization, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 258-261, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-56

The article was published as article 56 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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