Technical Paper
Effect of Stagnation Flow on an Impacting Water Droplet on a Superhydrophobic Surface
2013-09-17
2013-01-2174
One of the relevant applications of this study is related to designing anti-icing surfaces. Supercooled water droplet impact at high Weber number on a wing of airplane is one of the main concerns in aircraft ice accumulation. In order to address this issue, an experimental setup which generates co-flow is designed to mimic the real scenario of droplet impact in practical icing condition. This process is observed using a high-speed camera to capture the correct moment of sliding at 10000 frames per second and 120000 1/s shutter speed. Different air stream velocities are generated by a convergent nozzle with a maximum Mach number of 0.1. Two different cases are considered. First, droplet impact in still air with an impact velocity of 2 m/s is performed as the base case. Then droplet impact accompanied with 10, 18 and 20 m/s air stream velocities having the same impact velocity are conducted. Droplet impact velocity will change either by air flow or gravity.
