Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0058963

Zusammenfassung

Safe air travel requires clean flight corridors. But within hours of a volcanic eruption (e.g. Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland in 2010), volcanic ash clouds are formed, containing particle concentrations which represent a potentially fatal hazard for aircraft operation. The high operation temperatures (1200 - 2000°C) of jet engines exacerbate the impact of volcanic ash, causing it to re-melt and potentially to stick to turbine parts. Despite the urgency, the role of volcanic ash deposition in jet engines (VADJEs) has not been adequately addressed. This is in part due to its complexity and ...