Digitize Airfoil Shapes with Ice Accretion for Aerodynamics and Simulation

Digitizing Iced Airfoils with Airfoil Digitizer ❄️✈️

Accurately modeling the effects of ice accretion on airfoils is essential for understanding performance degradation in real-world flight conditions. At Hanley Innovations, we make this possible with Airfoil Digitizer — a powerful and easy-to-use tool that lets you convert complex airfoil images, including those with icing, into precise coordinate files.

The image demonstrates a real-world use case: a NACA 0012 airfoil with upper-surface ice accretion digitized using Airfoil Digitizer. The original airfoil and the iced version are both captured from the image and converted into coordinate data for use in aerodynamic analysis tools such as VisualFoil, Stallion 3D, or even your own custom CFD code.

Why Use Airfoil Digitizer for Iced Airfoils?

• Handles Irregular Shapes: Ice accretion rarely forms smooth contours — our tool adapts to jagged and asymmetric formations.
• Adjustable Tolerance: Capture just the right amount of detail using the built-in tolerance slider.
• Output in Analysis-Ready Format: Export coordinates directly to VisualFoil, UIUC, or DXF format for quick analysis.
• No Need for Manual Tracing: Save time and reduce error when extracting data from icing simulation or wind tunnel images.

Whether you're working on aircraft certification, research, or student projects, Airfoil Digitizer makes it easy to extract the effects of ice accretion for aerodynamic simulation and performance prediction.

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