Static charging by collisions with ice particles
Abstract
Recent laboratory work will be described which gives considerable insight into the fundamental processes of charge flow and separation which operate when small ice particles impact upon metal surfaces or upon a second ice surface. This work suggests that the charge transfer when ice contacts metal or ice should be to some extent predictable and dependent upon the work function of the metal and the surface or contact potential of the ice. This contact potential is different for ice formed in the atmosphere by different natural methods.
- Publication:
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IN: International Aerospace Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982lse.....2....2I
- Keywords:
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- Aircraft Hazards;
- Electrostatic Charge;
- Ice;
- Particle Collisions;
- Polarization (Charge Separation);
- Static Electricity;
- Charge Exchange;
- Metal Surfaces;
- Thermoelectricity;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering