This hybrid course (on-site/online) (1,5 ECTs) serves as an introduction to basic principles of icing physics and ice accretion simulation, and is optional for all students. Emphasis is put on the relation between icing physics, meteorological aspects, important factors affecting icing and icing conditions defined in airworthiness certification requirements. This course is continuously updated following the research activities at the VKI.

The course will be delivered by Prof. Serkan Özgen, Full Professor at at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Türkiye.

At the end of the course the student should understand the basic vocabulary and philosophy of icing physics:
- Aerodynamic effects of icing;
- Factors affecting icing and their definitions: Liquid water content, temperature, median volumetric diameter, airspeed, temperature, water catch rate, relative humidity;
- Icing clouds: stratiform clouds, cumuliform clouds;
- Kinds of ice: rime ice, glaze ice, mixed ice, beak ice, runback water;
- Icing conditions defined in airworthiness certification requirements;
- Steps of ice accretion simulation;
- Flowfield solution;
- Droplet trajectory and collection efficiency solution;
- Convective heat transfer coefficient calculation;
- Ice growth rate calculation, Messinger Model and Extended Messinger Model.