SPRICE Workshop - 07 Dec 2021, Clarion Collection Hotel Aurora, Tromsø

Understanding the spay icing phenomenon is of crucial importance in order to manage the associated operational risks and safety hazards by, for instance, design and operation of anti-icing and de-icing measures. There have been several models for estimating icing rates for different applications. The rate of ice accretion is mainly defined by the heat transfer and the spray flux, which is created by either wave-vessel interaction or water droplets blown off wave crests. The proposed models often rely on a wide range of input variables such as meteorological and oceanographic parameters in addition to physical properties of the surfaces, geometry and characteristics of the facility (e.g., fishing vessels and fish farms). The meteorological and oceanographic parameters and the spray flux measurements can be used to develop empirical expressions for spray fluxes.

In this seminar different experts with knowledge on different aspects of research on spray icing, namely, spray icing modelling and simulation techniques, data collection and field and laboratory measurements, as well as risk and safety perspectives will participate and share their recent research findings and ideas.

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The Fram Center and The Research Council of Norway are acknowledge for funding the workshop.