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Helicopter Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Manfred Hajek
Contact
Phone +49.89.289.16300
Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Hajek, Director
Adjunct Professors
Hon.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Butter
Administrative Staff
Martina Thieme
Research Scientists
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Rauleder
Amine Abdelmoula, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Aaron Barth
Jakob Bludau, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Roland Feil
Willem Garre, M.Sc.
Omkar Halbe, M.Eng.
Verena Heuschneider, M.Sc.
Bastian Horvat, M.Sc.
Dominik Komp, M.Sc.
Sumeet Kumar, M.Tech.
Tim Mehling, M.Sc.
Tobias Pflumm, M.Sc.
Stefan Platzer, M.Sc.
Markus Rinker, M.Sc.
Yin Ruan, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Schicker
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Spieß
Katharina Strohrmann, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Sören Süße
Dominik Wirth, M.Sc.
Research Focus
■■Interactional aerodynamics
■■Aeromechanic rotor modeling
■■Nonlinear controls
■■Pilot assistance & situational
awareness
■■Rotorcraft design and sizing
Competence
■■CFD and free wake simulations of rotor
wake and vortex flows
■■Dynamic stall modeling
■■Coupled rotor-fuselage simulation
■■Real-time flight simulation
■■Hardware in the loop simulation
■■Design and manufacturing of
composite rotor blades
■■Sensor integration in light weight
structures
Infrastructure
■■Research helicopter simulator with 6
channels, image, terrain and image
data bases and head tracking system
■■Test rig for blade root structures (lead-
lag and flap)
■■Optical strain measurement system
(Fiber Bragg gratings))
■■Cluster with 500 cores
Lectures
■■Introduction to Aeronautical
Engineering (Rotorcraft)
■■Helicopter Flight Physics
■■Helicopter Design and Architecture I/II
■■Helicopter Systems
■■Helicopter Safety and Certification
■■Helicopter Flight Dynamics and Control
■■Fundamentals of Helicopter
Aerodynamics
■■Helicopter Aerodynamics – Advanced
Topics
■■Lightweight Structures
■■Smart Structures
■■Practical Course IFR Helicopter Flight
■■Practical Course Lightweight Structures
■■Soft-Skill Seminar Helicopter
Engineering: Leadership
Selected Publications 2017
■■Strohrmann, K., Blaut, J., Panescu, C.,
Endres, H.-J., Svidler, R., Hajek, M.:
Impact Damage Behavior and Non-
Destructive Inspection Methods of Thin
Hybrid Carbon-Flax Laminates, DLRK,
Munich, Germany, 2017
■■Suesse, S., Hajek, M.: Dynamic Rotor
Blade Displacement Tracking with
Fiber-Optical Sensors for a Health and
Usage Monitoring System, 18th AIAA/
ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and
Optimization Conference, Denver,
Colorado, USA, June 2017
■■Wirth, D., Hajek, M.: Probabilistic
Methodology for Multi-Fidelity Model-
Based Robust Preliminary Design
of Rotorcraft, American Helicopter
Society 73rd Annual Forum, Fort Worth,
TX, 2017
■■Feil, R., Rinker, M., Hajek, M.: Flight
Testing of a Coaxial Ultralight Rotor­
craft, American Helicopter Society 73rd
Annual Forum, Fort Worth, TX, 2017
■■Viertler, F., Hajek, M.: Evaluation of
Visual Augmentation Methods for
Rotorcraft Pilots in Degraded Visual
Environments, Journal of the American
Helicopter Society, 2017
■■Bludau, J., Rauleder, J., Friedmann,
L., Hajek, M.: Real-Time Simulation of
Dynamic Inflow Using Rotorcraft Flight
Dynamics Coupled With a Lattice-
Boltzmann Based Fluid Simulation,
55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences
Meeting. Grapevine, Texas, 2017