Assessment of Noncommercial Icing Prediction Capabilities for Army Applications

Abstract

Ice prediction capabilities for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) is of growing interest as UAS designs and applications become more diverse. This report summarizes the current state-of-the-art in modeling aircraft icing within a computational framework as well as a recent United States (U.S.) Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) effort to evaluate ice prediction models for current use and future integration into the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) Air Vehicle (AV) framework.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 2023
Accession Number
AD1203641

Entities

People

  • Amanda G. Kolpitcke
  • Kevin C. Losser
  • Zachary M. Hall

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Experimental Data
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Ice Formation
  • Potential Flow
  • Simulations
  • Swept Wings
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy