Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: THE BOEING COMPANY
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2016-09-07 to 2020-10-31
Current total value of award: $585477
Description: UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ADVANCED AIR TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY PROJECT OF THE ADVANCED AIR VEHICLES PROGRAM RESEARCH IS BEING DIRECTED AT UNDERSTANDING ICE ACCRETION AND AERODYNAMIC  EFFECTS FOR LARGE SCALE SWEPT WINGS. NASA HAS PARTNERED WITH FAA AND ONERA TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT. A SERIES OF ICING TESTS IN THE ICING RESEARCH TUNNEL IRT HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED TO  CHARACTERIZE ICE FORMATIONS ON LARGE SCALE SWEPT WINGS REPRESENTATIVE OF MODERN COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT AIRPLANES. THE RESULT IS A LARGE DATABASE OF ICE ACCRETION GEOMETRY THAT CAN BE USED FOR SUBSEQUENT AERODYNAMIC EVALUATION IN OTHER EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES AND FOR VALIDATION OF ICE ACCRETION PREDICTION CODES.