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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 inspires at TU Braunschweig’s CampusXperience 2025
From June 20 to 22, 2025, the Technical University of Braunschweig opened its doors to the first CampusXperience – and SynTrac was there! Under the motto Explore. Celebrate. Play., more than 7,000 visitors were able to experience the university up close – with excitin …
SynTrac Takes Off Again at Science Day 2025 at University of Stuttgart
For the second year in a row, SynTrac joined Science Day 2025 at the University of Stuttgart, inviting visitors to explore an unusual question: What does a rowing ergometer have to do with flying? As part of the SynTrac public outreach initiative, the Science Lab aims to make phy …
Winter School 2025: Focus on international collaboration and excellence
Visiting researchers from all over the world, an International Female Program and an ongoing lecture series with world-renowned experts – SynTrac conducts cutting-edge research with an international perspective. This is also reflected in the training of doctoral students th …
Advancing Sustainable Aviation: SynTrac Supports University of Stuttgart Team at InnovAero Competition 2024
The mission of making air travel more sustainable is a shared goal between SynTrac and the broader aviation community. This commitment naturally extended to Prof. Stephan Staudacher, co-spokesperson of the TRR364 SynTrac, mentoring a group of highly motivated aerospace engineerin …
