Starting a new thread because question is very specific. i watched the NASA video that one of the moderators (Jason?) so kindly posted, twice, before I noted the very critical finding that rime ice accumulates on horizontal stabilizer leading edge faster than on wing leading edge BECAUSE (according to the video) the former has a sharper (thinner) airfoil. This finally explained to me why one might expect tail ice w/o wing ice, and why NASA did its flight tests with simulated ice accretion only on the tail surface. But this begs a further question:
Why does a sharp leading edge accumulate ice faster than a blunt one?
Anybody help me out here?
Phil