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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
Science Day at the University of Stuttgart
What does a rowing ergometer have to do with flying? At the Institute for Air Propulsion Systems at the University of Stuttgart, interested visitors were able to find out exactly that. The SynTrac rowing ergometer was set up there, on which visitors could use their strength to ma …
SynTrac session at the DLRK 2024 in Hamburg
From 30 September to 2 October 2024, leading aerospace experts came together at the University of Hamburg to discuss current topics in the industry. With more than 450 lectures and poster presentations, the German Aerospace Congress reached a new high this year. SynTrac was in go …
SynTrac at Aero 2024 Friedrichshafen
AERO 2024 in Friedrichshafen took place from April 17 to 20 and SynTrac was represented as part of an exhibition area dedicated to the innovative aerospace research that the University of Stuttgart collaborates in. The event itself put a spotlight on groundbreaking engineering in …
Vocatium Trade Fair for training and further education
“Why does the aircraft look like this?” was a question that Christian Koch from the Institute of Aircraft Propulsion Systems (ILA) at the University of Stuttgart was often asked when he was talking to schoolchildren and prospective students at the Vocatium trade fair in Stuttgart …
