期刊
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 447, 期 -, 页码 599-609出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.04.032
关键词
Soft PDMS materials; Dynamics of droplet impingement; Ultra-low ice adhesion material; Impact icing process; Aircraft icing mitigation
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资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [NNX16AN21A, NNX12C21A]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CBET1064196, CBET-1435590]
- Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) Base Program for Aircraft Icing Studies
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1435590] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A series of experiments were conducted to characterize the anti-/de-icing performances of soft PDMS materials with different shear modulus and to explore their potentials for aircraft icing mitigation. In the present study, a new class of soft PDMS materials with adjustable shear modulus were fabricated by adding different amounts and different molecular weights of non-reactive trimethyl-terminated PDMS (t-PDMS) into the hydrosilylation mixture of vinyl-terminated PDMS (v-PDMS) and hydrideterminated PDMS (h-PDMS). While the soft PDMS materials were found to be hydrophobic with the contact angle of water droplets over the PDMS surfaces being about 110 degrees, the ice adhesion strength over the soft PDMS materials was found to be extremely low (i.e., being less than 10 kPa at -5 degrees C or two orders of magnitude smaller), in comparison to those of the conventional rigid surface (i.e., being greater than 1000 kPa for Aluminum or the hard plastic material used to make the airfoil/wing model used in the present study). Upon the dynamic impacting of water droplets at relatively high weber number levels pertinent to aircraft inflight icing phenomena (e.g., We = 4000), the soft PDMS surfaces were found to deform dynamically due to the elastic nature of the PDMS materials, which cause the soft PDMS materials acting as trampolines to bounce off most of the impinged water mass away from the impacted surfaces. By applying the soft PDMS materials to coat/cover the surface of a NACA 0012 airfoil/wing model, an explorative study was also performed in an Icing Research Tunnel available at Iowa State University (i.e., ISUIRT) to demonstrate the feasibility of using the soft PDMS materials to mitigate the impact ice accretion process pertinent to aircraft inflight icing phenomena. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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