Technology & Development of the Next Generation of Aero Engines

Summer Semester

Lecturer: Dr. Claus Riegler (Leiter Technologie und Vorauslegung, MTU Aero Engines AG)

Supervision: Katharina Lyhs

Target group:

It is aimed in particular at students of aerospace and mechanical engineering. Due to its close connection to industry, it is also suitable for students from other disciplines who are interested in innovative methods and approaches to development at MTU Aero Engines, the leading German manufacturer of aircraft engines.

General information:

Supplementary module with 3 ECTS
Lecture (2 SWS) in the summer semester

Contents:

The development of aircraft engines is a highly complex, interdisciplinary and globally networked endeavor. The past seven decades have been characterized by the optimization of the aircraft gas turbine - as the preferred propulsion system for commercial aviation - in the direction of reducing fuel consumption and thus the costs per passenger kilometer. This was accompanied by reductions in emissions in line with the evolving regulatory requirements, for example noise emissions.

The lecture is based on the method of integrated product development established in the engine industry (at MTU Integrated Product Development, Creation and Maintenance) and leads the participants from the classification of the aviation engine market via the ecological and regulatory requirements for the product to the derivation of suitable new engine concepts and their preliminary design. A typical engine development process is then presented, and specific issues in the area of interdisciplinary iterative design of components including validation, flight testing and certification are dealt with. Special focus is placed on the presentation of the implementation of development tasks in an industrial environment, as well as on currently discussed new drive concepts as pioneers for climate-neutral aviation.

The lecture is supplemented and completed by an excursion to MTU Aero Engines, which provides an insight into the real processes on site.

Kontakt: VL-TET.ltf@ed.tum.de

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