The award ceremony took place during the Research Day of the Lower Saxony Research Center for Aviation (Niedersächsischen Forschungszentrums für Luftfahrt (NFL)) on November 27, 2025, in Braunschweig, and two SE²A researchers received awards!
Dr.-Ing. Yannic Beyer investigated a new approach to active gust load reduction for aircraft wings at the Institute of Flight Guidance at TU Braunschweig. Since aircraft wings have so far mostly been designed for strong turbulence, this results in high material and thus weight requirements. In his dissertation, Dr. Beyer developed a mathematical model that controls active actuators in the wing in the event of known turbulence in order to stiffen it in a targeted manner and compensate for the load. He also created a simulation environment to validate the process. In various scenarios, he was able to show that the wing load can be reduced to 1g. The approach thus enables significant material and weight savings and thus contributes to the reduction of CO₂ emissions. It should be emphasised that both the work and the algorithm and simulation have been made publicly available.
More information on his project "Active load Reduction for enabling a 1-G wing using fOrward-looking and distributed sensors (ARGO)"
Dr.-Ing. Paul Zimmermann researched the stability limits of new fuel combinations in premixed flames of aircraft engines at the Institute for Technical Combustion at Leibniz University Hannover. The aim was to identify a fuel that enables a significantly less polluting premixed combustion mode based on the lean premixed prevaporised (LPP) process – ideally without soot particles and nitrogen oxides. His work thus makes an important contribution to the future environmental compatibility of aviation. Both the NFL Executive Board and external experts praised the high scientific quality of the work.
More information on his project "Synthetic Fuel Combustion for Aviation Application"
Both scientists were awarded the Hermann Blenk Research Prize, worth 2,500 euros each, this year.
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