Ihar Antonau

My name is Ihar Antonau and I am research associate at the Institute of Structural Analysis (ISD- TUBs) and I have background in computational mechanics and applied mathematics. My research addresses challenges in multidisciplinary analysis and design for studying new potential aircraft technologies.

In our research group we try to answer two research questions. First question focuses on the numerical methods, and it can be formulated as follows: “how can we model the skin heat exchanger for non-conventual aircraft configurations with electrical propulsion system powered by fuel cells?”. Second question focuses on the engineering aspects of using skin heat exchangers, like “How can we improve aerodynamics of the airplane with skin heat exchangers?” or “what are the benefits or drawbacks of using skin heat exchanger on the airplanes?”. Our research group focuses on reducing overall mass, increasing amount of energy dissipated and improving aerodynamics of the airplane.

I like solving challenging engineering problems by developing new numerical methods and SE2A project suits perfectly my interests. My passion is doing complex simulations which includes different disciplines and trying to improve the performance of the models by making them stronger, lighter or more aerodynamically efficient.

Finding more efficient airplane design requires pushing the design solutions closer to their limits. More robust and efficient optimization algorithms and design processes are required to discover these designs.

In our group, we have colleagues from different research groups and Universities and I enjoy having discussions with them and exchanging ideas. Additionally, our group cooperates with other groups from the cluster and that allows us to extend and improve our research or helps others with our contribution to the cluster.