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Our Mission
In today’s globalized world, trade and travel play a fundamental role in many people’s lives, both professionally and personally. Climate-neutral mobility, especially climate-neutral air transport, is an important measure to mitigate climate change. Climate-neutral air transport creates the framework conditions for achieving economic and social sustainability goals. Universal access to safe and climate-neutral air transport connects people and companies around the world.
A significant increase in the overall efficiency of aircraft is the prerequisite for realizing the vision of a climate-neutral air transport system. The consistent further development of aircraft and propulsion technologies will make a significant contribution to this goal. The synergies associated with a greatly increased integration of propulsion systems in future commercial aircraft will contribute to this goal with a potential of 10 to 20% additional energy savings.
Our goals & methods
We utilize interactions between the disciplines of aerodynamics, acoustics, flight physics, structural mechanics and thermodynamics through a multidisciplinary, cross-system view of the aircraft development process in order to develop future highly efficient aircraft through innovative approaches.
The main pillars of this integration are Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI), Distributed Propulsion (DP), the combination of thrust generation and aircraft control as well as the various aspects of the integration of the propulsion systems in the airframe. The comprehensive evaluation of synergies and the optimally balanced application of the principles require a consistent cross-disciplinary and cross-system view of the entire aircraft. The synergies result from physical processes and phenomena at the various interfaces between aircraft and propulsion systems, which are investigated in the individual projects.
News at SynTrac
SynTrac at the Science Pub – A Glimpse into the Future of Flight
Quench your thirst for knowledge while enjoying a relaxed drink – that’s what the Science Pub is all about. In an informal atmosphere, leading researchers serve science in a refreshingly accessible way: entertaining, understandable, and full of “aha” moments. A little more than 1 …
Annual Meeting 2025: Three Days of Exchange, Insights, and Future Perspectives
This year, TU Braunschweig hosted the SynTrac Annual Meeting which took place at Hofjäger 36, an inspiring workspace that provided the perfect setting for three days of intensive presentations, lively poster sessions, and vibrant interdisciplinary exchange. Across three consecuti …
SynTrac at EASN 2025 in Madrid
SynTrac participated in the EASN Conference 2025, held in Madrid, Spain, with a dedicated project session chaired by the spokesperson Prof. Sabine Langer and co-spokesperson Prof. Stephan Staudacher. The EASN (European Aeronautics Science Network) Conference is a leading internat …
Dr.-Ing. Xing Yang appointed as Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)
Dr.-Ing. Xing Yang has taken an important step in his career and now holds a professorship at the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University (China). His academic career is closely linked to the University of Stuttgart and the SynTrac research conso …
