Method of designing icing prober for an horizontal axis wing turbine

A method of designing icing detection system for wind turbine is presented in this paper. The main idea of the approach is to integrate icing sensors on an extra prober and to predict ice on wind turbine according to the prober icing. Basic steps for design are proposed. Numerical arithmetic used for design configuration and shape of the icing prober is given. The arithmetic is composed of the Multiple Reference Frame (MRF) method to calculate flowfield of air, a Lagrangian method to compute droplet trajectories and a technique for fast computing ice accretion. Icing prober configuration for a 1.5MW horizontal axis wind turbine is then obtained with the approach. The state of wind turbine icing can be indicated by the prober in real time. All these achievements build a good base for future research.