Study of Dry Ice Growth on Duplex Cylinders

Abstract

A study of dry ice growth on bundled (duplex) cylinders has been performed using icing wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulations. The aim of this study is to "fill the gaps" in the works of Wagner (2010) and Qing et al. (2018). The numerical simulations cover a range of possible icing conditions by varying the operating wind speed, median volume diameter, and for some cases−the angle of incidence between the cylinders. The obtained results for the 0° AoA show that the accreted ice masses ratio between the leeward and windward cylinder varies from ~ 100% to ~ 30%. The accreted ice masses ratio decreases with the increase in the wind speed and/or median volume diameter. For the cases with non-zero AoA, the accreted ice masses become approximately equal, when the AoA is large enough to produce a vertical separation equal or greater to one cylinder diameter.