Abstract Icing is one of the most fascinating phenomena occurring ubiquitously in nature and multiple industrial applications. In spite of a century of research work on this topic, an in-depth physical description of icing process is still missing due to the unorthodox behaviors of water during solidification. In recent years, many important features pertaining to some ultrafast and microscale phenomena in icing have been revealed using latest experimental techniques and newly developed numerical simulation methods. This work aims to present a comprehensive up-to-date review on the subject of icing. Fundamentals of icing nucleation dynamics are introduced, followed by discussion on propagations of freezing phase fronts. Different forms of icing, including freezing of droplets, desublimation/sublimation, and condensation frosting, are presented sequentially. Emphasis is placed on a few recently revealed phenomena, such as dendritic ice growth through desublimation, kinetic behaviors of droplets upon freezing, frost spreading by building icing bridges, etc. A summary of recent progress in the application of anti-/de- icing methods is also presented. The results of these studies not only improve our understanding of physical mechanisms on icing, but also benefit the understanding of solidification processes in other disciplines with different applications.

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最近关于结冰现象的文献综述：传输机制、它们的调制和控制

摘要 结冰是自然界和多种工业应用中普遍存在的最迷人的现象之一。尽管在这个主题上进行了一个世纪的研究工作，但由于水在凝固过程中的非正统行为，仍然缺少对结冰过程的深入物理描述。近年来，使用最新的实验技术和新开发的数值模拟方法，已经揭示了与结冰中一些超快和微尺度现象有关的许多重要特征。这项工作旨在对结冰主题进行全面的最新审查。介绍了结冰成核动力学的基本原理，然后讨论了冻结相前沿的传播。不同形式的结冰，包括液滴冻结、凝华/升华和冷凝结霜，依次呈现。重点放在最近揭示的一些现象上，例如通过凝华生长的树枝状冰、冻结时液滴的动力学行为、通过建立结冰桥传播霜冻等。 防/除冰方法应用的最新进展总结还介绍了。这些研究的结果不仅提高了我们对结冰物理机制的理解，而且有利于理解具有不同应用的其他学科的凝固过程。