2. BILAL OUTIRBA
Information acquired: 2025
BILAL OUTIRBA is an academic who published a paper in 2019 entitled An overview of climatic wind tunnel for anti-icing performance testing of superhydrophobic coatings. BILAL OUTIRBA published this work as part of a team: OUTIRBA, Bilal. Here is a description of this work: In the scope of the Walloon Region funded project named Safewires, the Aero-Thermo-Mechanics (ATM) department of ULB collaborates with the Laboratory of Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces (LPSI) of UMons on the development of alternative coating techniques to prevent ice formation. This paper focuses on the design and construction of the icing wind tunnel facility that ULB currently implements. The temperature range varies from ambient to -30 C, while the air maximum velocity reaches 100 m/s. The test bench reproduces several precipitation types with accurate liquid water content in a repeatable and fully controlled environment..