Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO)

Forschungsgruppe Flugzeugentwurf und -systeme

AERO is part of the Department of Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and of the Strategic Research Area Mobility and Transport.

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

AERO's Current Projects:

Flying During the Corona Pandemic
Aircraft Cabin Air
PreSTo - Aircraft Preliminary Sizing Tool
SAS - Simple Aircraft Sizing
OpenVSP-Connect - Visualize Aircraft Sizing Results with OpenVSP

AERO's Finished Projects:

Aircraft Design for Hamburg Open Online University
Airport 2030 - WP 4.1 - Evolutionary Aircraft Configurations
OPerA - Optimization in Preliminary Aircraft Design
Off-Takes - Secondary Power Extraction from Jet Engines
TOC - Take-Off Calculation
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

AERO's Short Courses:

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) deutsch and englisch

AERO's Contact Details:

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

See us on:

AERO's Results:

Dissertations from AERO and Licentiate Theses (access only @ HAW or via VPN)
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.

Head of AERO:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter SCHOLZ, MSME

-8825,

: D/218

+49-40-18119881 (home office)
>>> Publications <<< (on university page, since 2010)
Publications (home page, complete only up to 2013)

Mike Gerdes defended successfully his Doctoral Thesis at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden on 2019-12-20. Check out his dissertation and presentation under PAHMIR.

PhD Students @ AERO:

Karunanidhi RAMACHANDRAN, M.Sc.

>>> Publications <<<
Project: Interactive and Experience-Driven Aircraft Design (in the frame of PreSTo and OpenVSP-Connect)
PhD Student at TTÜ

Lecturers @ AERO
Dr.-Ing. Danyck Nguewo (FM2)
Dipl.-Ing. Claus Cordes, Flugkapitän (Professionelles Fliegen im Labor LFB-L)
All lecturers are taking over teaching responsibilities from Prof. Scholz.

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
Benjamin Kühner

Students @ AERO
Students conducting a project or thesis.

Alumni @ AERO pin
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!

Snapshots at lunchtime: employees, PhD students, students working on a project or thesis @ AERO together with some (international) students from the lecture Aircraft Design

Summer Semester 2019

Summer Semester 2017

Summer Semester 2016

Summer Semester 2015

Summer Semester 2014

Summer Semester 2013

LAST UPDATE: 15 May 2021
AUTHOR: Prof. Dr. Scholz
IMPRESSUM (PDF)

  Prof. Dr. Scholz
  Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO)
  Aeronautical Engineering
  Department of Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering
  Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
  Hamburg University of Applied Sciences