SynTrac Home
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 Inspires Future Engineers at ‘Wunderwelt der Tropfen’
As part of the Try Science initiative at the University of Stuttgart, SynTrac hosted the engaging event “Wunderwelt der Tropfen” in March 2025 — designed to inspire the next generation of engineers. The event welcomed 16 enthusiastic students, aged 16 and above, from …
Advisory Board for SynTrac established
SynTrac’s mission is to drive transformative changes in aviation by reducing emissions and designing highly efficient aircraft for the future. Through innovative approaches and interdisciplinary collaboration, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) is addressing some of the most …
A very special kind of early career researchers: element-i Kinderhaus visits SynTrac
SynTrac was visited by a very special group of young researchers in March 2024. A group of kindergarten children from the element-i Kinderhaus “Steppkes” in Vaihingen arrived at the Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR) at the University of Stuttgart full of anticipation t …
The 59th Stallwächterparty: Baden-Württemberg puts a focus on aerospace
The 59th Stallwächterparty at the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Berlin was held under the motto “THE aerospace LÄND” and focused on the aerospace industry. Around 1,800 guests enjoyed an evening that focused on the economic, cultural and culinary diversity of the fede …
