TU Braunschweig

PEGASUS Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Horst

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Research Fields

  • Jet propulsion and turbine machinery
  • Flight guidance, flight control and air traffic management
  • Aircraft and lightweight design
  • Space systems
  • Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics and aeroacoustics
  • Aerospace materials
  • Adaptronics and function integration

Facilities

  • Several wind tunnels
  • Icing wind tunnel
  • Large water channel
  • Jet engine V2500-A1
  • Large propulsion test rig
  • Several material testing facilities (stress/torsion)
  • Multi-axial structure test rig
  • Mobile robotic CFRP-production platform
  • High temperature material coating centre
  • 2 research aircraft
  • 3 flight simulators
  • 2 LIDARS
  • GNSS constellation simulation
  • Helicopter drag probe Helipod

People

  • Full professors: 18
  • Associate professors: 3
  • Assistant professors: 19
  • Researchers: N/A
  • PhD candidates: 150*
  • MSc students: 250

* There are many PhD-candidates, who are working at DLR, but perform their PhD at the TU BS. These are not counted

Exchange

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For Ph.D. positions, click here