Organisation - Notizen

28 October 2026, Franzo Banzo

Aircraft Design

• Two engine Aircraft
• Batteries under the wings (as counter weight to upwards bendingA)
• Keep it as close as possible to the reference
• turboprop for better efficiency
• Fuselage mounted tail

Weekly meeting monday second block (short) Another weekly meeting on wednesday 13:00 (potentially longer)

what to do

• literature and research: engines, batteries, current technologies (Phillip)
• mass estimation: find calibration values (Max, Franz)
• fuselage sizing / shape, 2/3 seats, space for luggage and batteries (Aurora)
• (aircraft configuration) (Everyone kinda)
• sizing diagram (Franz)

next meeting

• present engine / battery research
  • engine power
  • engine mass
  • battery energy density (cell / packs)
• present sizing diagram code
• design requirements document
• upload any findings

Masters Thesis at SWE

• floating wind aerodynamics
• prooject focuses on mooring lines
• chances for publication in journals
• reduce wake interaction by moving the floating wind turbines in the park by dynamically changing the length of the mooring lines
• problem: loads on mooring lines could be too high with optimal layout - so it needs to be taken into account
• fatigue loads need many cases (10^6 simulations)
• solution: train surrogate model on previous simulations to get approximations fast inside optimization loop
• data set is needed (already done)

scope for master's thesis:

• approx errors largest when mooring lines change length / position
• develop a GNN to help the model learn faster
• integrate surrogate model into layout optimization routine - reach final step of project
• two options: take something opensource or do something from the institute or on your own
• second idea start in march
• first idea start in january (latest)

timeline, exprectations IEA task 49 (international agency)

no hiwi funding