The COMET Module LEC HybTec pools competences and complementary technologies through interdisciplinary cooperation with renowned partners in order to derive completely new concepts that meet the challenges future engine technology will face. This combination of established and new technologies from complementary areas of expertise into hybrid methods opens up new perspectives on engine development and system optimization and contributes in particular to the overcoming of actual limits to the effective development of large engines. The hybrid approaches considered by the research program focus on fusing physical models and data-driven models to optimize overall sustainable energy systemsand improve the predictive quality of simulation processes, as well as to use ceramic-metal material combinations in the design of highly stressed engine components such as spark plugs and pistons.
The search for the optimal combination of complementary methods is a scientific challenge that has hardly been explored in the context of large engine technology and therefore offers great potential for future engine concepts.
On the whole, the research program of the COMET Module LEC HybTec strengthens and expands the world leading position of the LEC in the field of sustainable large engine development by significantly expanding the range of competences at the center. The resulting innovative solutions provide the LEC and its partners with a significant scientific and technological advantage.This also sustainably strengthens Styria and Austria as business region for innovative green technologies
