UAV Wing De-icing Simulations: Heating Time and Energy Metrics

Joachim Wallisch produced this engineering dataset of summarized CFD simulation results for UAV electrothermal wing de-icing in 2026. It quantifies the heating time and energy consumption required to reach an 83% ice-interface melt threshold across various heat flux configurations.

Use Cases

• Optimizing de-icing efficiency by analyzing the relationship between heat flux and the energy column
• Predicting ice shedding events using the heating time required to reach the 83% melt threshold
• Benchmarking UAV ice protection systems against simulated energy consumption metrics

Strengths

• Uses a specific 83% interface melt threshold for shedding prediction
• Provides both heating time and energy consumption metrics
• Derived from validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations

Limitations

• Contains summarized results rather than raw high-fidelity CFD mesh data
• Scope is restricted to electrothermal de-icing systems for UAV wings
• Unknown total number of simulation records

Provenance

Source

Joachim Wallisch, DataverseNO

Collection Method

synthetic

Freshness

Last updated March 2026