Modeling Water Droplet Freezing and Collision with a Solid Surface

Doston Shayunusov, Dmitry Eskin, Boris V. Balakin, Svyatoslav Chugunov, Stein Tore Johansen and Iskander Akhatov
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Doston Shayunusov: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Eskin: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Boris V. Balakin: Department of Mechanical and Marine Engineering, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, 7030 Bergen, Norway
Svyatoslav Chugunov: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
Stein Tore Johansen: SINTEF, 4760 Trondheim, Norway
Iskander Akhatov: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-11

Abstract: Water droplets released from the sea surface represent one of the major causes of ice accretion on marine vessels. A one-dimensional model of the freezing of a spherical water droplet moving in cold air was developed. The crystallization model allows one to obtain an analytical solution if a uniform temperature distribution over the liquid’s core is assumed. The model was validated using STAR CCM+ Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. A collision of a partially frozen droplet with a solid wall assuming the plastic deformation of an ice crust was also considered. The ratio of the crust deformation to the crust thickness was evaluated. It was assumed that if this ratio were to exceed unity, the droplet would stick to the wall’s surface due to ice bridge formation caused by the water released from the droplet’s core.

Keywords: breakage; collision; droplet–wall sticking probability; crystallization; ice crust; modeling; ice-accretion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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