Category: Other Events
State: Current
June 2-6 2025

MechaTwing Summer School

DLR Institute of Aeroelasticity, Göttingen, Germany

The first edition of the MechaTwing Summer School will be held as part of the MechaTwing project, funded by the European Union. It is organized by TU Wien, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), CzechInvest, and Politecnico di Torino.The event will bring together researchers, scientists, and experts for a week of focused training and knowledge exchange on the latest challenges and innovations in aircraft design, with particular emphasis on aeroelasticity and structural technologies.

Lectures to introduce both fundamental and advanced topics of:

  • Aeroelasticity, Loads, Aerodynamic Design of Aircraft, Flow Control (W.-R. KRÜGER, M. RITTER, A. SEITZ, J. SERPIERI)
  • High-Fidelity Loads Analyses, Transonic Aerodynamic Design, Vortex Identification and Control, Parametric Aeroelastic Model Generation, Nonlinear Optimization of Highly Flexible Transport Aircraft Structures, Aeroservoelastic Modelling with High-Fidelity Unsteady Aerodynamics, Advanced Methods for System Theory and Control, Aeroelastic Analysis with Non-Linear Beam Finite Elements, Mechatronic Actuation and Structural Morphing, Structural Dynamics and System Identification (J. FELDWISCH, A. SEITZ, M. PATY, T. KLIMMEK, M. ZIMMER, D. QUERO-MARTIN, A. SCHIRRER, E. CESTINO/G. FRULLA, M. VALASEK, J. GUNDLACH)
Hands-on experiments in the laboratory to demonstrate:
  • Static and Dynamic Aeroelastic Effects in the Wind Tunnel (Divergence, Flutter, Limit-Cycle Oscillations) and the Impact of System Parameters (A. ALTKUCKATZ)
  • Experimental Modal Analyses and Applied System Identification (J. GUNDLACH, M. RITTER)
Workshops to introduce:
  • LoadsKernel, an Open-source state-of-the-art Loads and Flight Dynamics Toolbox (A. VOSS)
  • cpacs-MONA, an in-house Aeroelastic Model Generator with Structural Optimization (T. KLIMMEK)