Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO)

Forschungsgruppe Flugzeugentwurf und -systeme

AERO's Mission Statement:

AERO's aim is to guide research assistants to cooperative dissertations and to conduct projects in research, development and teaching.

Emphasis of AERO's Work:

• Aircraft Design
• Aircraft Systems
• Flight Mechanics

• Aircraft Cabin Air
• Aircraft Design for Hamburg Open Online University
• PreSTo - Aircraft Preliminary Sizing Tool
• SAS - Simple Aircraft Sizing
• OpenVSP-Connect - Visualize Aircraft Sizing Results with OpenVSP
• Off-Takes - Secondary Power Extraction from Jet Engines

• Airport 2030 - WP 4.1 - Evolutionary Aircraft Configurations
• OPerA - Optimization in Preliminary Aircraft Design
• TOC - Take-Off Calculation (Link: to be updated)
• PAHMIR - Preventive Aircraft Health Monitoring for Integrated Reconfiguration
• CARISMA - Aircraft Cabin and Cabin System Refurbishing - Optimization of Technical Processes
• MOZART - Health Monitoring von Brennstoffzellensystemen in der Luftfahrt
• ALOHA - Aircraft Design for Low Cost Ground Handling
• Green Freighter - Green Freighter
• FLECS - Functional Model Library of the Environmental Control Systems
• EPMA - European Postgraduate Master in Aeronautical Engineering

• Aircraft Design
• Fundamentals of Aeronautical Engineering

AERO's Presentation:
Aero_PRE_13-12-01.pdf  (7.3M)

AERO's Presentation in the Booklet "75 Years of Aeronautical Engineering Teaching in Hamburg":
Aero_ART_Festschrift-FZT-sammel_10-06-04.pdf  ( 11M)   and

AERO's Contact Details:

AERO - Prof. Dr. Scholz
HAW Hamburg, Berliner Tor 9, D-20099 Hamburg
  + 49 - 40 - 42875 - 8825 to -8828
 + 49 - 40 - 42875 - 8829
Building D, Room 217 and 218
How to find AERO

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AERO's Results:

• Dissertations from AERO and Licentiate Theses
• Papers and other publications from AERO: Available from the respected project web page (see above)
• Reports @ AERO: All other output from the group
• Digital Library: Projects and theses supervised in the group (update pending)
• Books @ AERO, Papers @ AERO: Books & Papers bought for our work
• We started to place our Results into
• Pictures of our Office
• AERO worked with almost 100% Third-Party Funds (from 2006 to 2015)
• AERO brought 1 620 000 EUR to the university with finished projects
• AERO guided projects worth 2 889 000 EUR together with it's partners

AERO's mark on Google Maps is close to the entrance of the building (please zoom in). Use either staircase or elevator. Go up to second floor (above the machine hall) and follow the sign with the A320 simulator to AERO's office.

Info: Sevenpack (Publication Database of HAW Hamburg)

Visiting Scholars @ AERO
Dr. Chrif LABANE from Dr. Moulay Tahar University of Saida, Algeria (2018-03-26 to 2018-04-17 and 2019-03-25 to 2019-04-21) - Funding: Home university
Dr. Mohamed Said Sayed Ahmed MOHAMED from Military Technical College (MTC), Cairo, Egypt (starting 2018-05-11 for 6 month) - Funding: Egyptian government

Student Assistants @ AERO
Johannes Hoelzel

Students @ AERO
Students conducting a project or thesis.

Alumni @ AERO
Alumni are our past research assistants, visiting scholars, and student assistants. Find a list of their achievements and publications.

Internationalization
English is our main language in the team. Often German, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, French, Russian and Polish can be heard as well. AERO provides a home for HAW Hamburg and exchange students alike and is proud of its team spirit!

Summer Semester 2017

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Summer Semester 2015

Summer Semester 2014

Summer Semester 2013