VIRTUAL FINAL EVENT

📅 Wednesday, March 16 | 09.30 am - 12.45 pm CET

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AGENDA

💦 09.30 – 09.45 | Welcome & Project Introduction
Johannes Oeffner, Team Leader at Fraunhofer CML & Project Coordinator of AIRCOAT

🚢 09.45 – 10.00 | Bio-inspiration solution: from the plant to the ship
Thomas Schimmel, Professor and Director at the Institute of Applied Physics and co-founder of the Institute of Nanotechnology at KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Scientific Coordinator of AIRCOAT

SESSION 1: INNOVATION & RESEARCH

🌿 10.00 – 10.15 | Innovative Structure & Protection Process
Stefan Walheim, Senior researcher at KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

🐚 10.15 - 10.25 | Marina Trials & Fouling Prevention
Marina Beltri Muñoz, Marine Consultant at AquaBioTech Group

💻 10.25 - 10.35 | Drag Reduction - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Albert Baars, Group Leader Computational Fluid Dynamics at BIC Biomimetics Innovation Center University of Applied Science Bremen

🚢 10.35 - 10.45 | Drag Reduction - Experiments
Johannes Oeffner, Team Leader at Fraunhofer CML & Project Coordinator of AIRCOAT

🙋‍♀️ 10.45 - 11.15 | Q&A Session moderated by Jonathan Weisheit, Researcher Associate at Fraunhofer CML

☕ 11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee break

SESSION 2: DEVELOPMENT & APPLICATION

✔ 11.30 - 11.45 | Industrial Foil Production
Helene Gobry, Senior Product Manager at Avery Dennison

🛳 11.45 - 11.50 | Containership Demonstration
Fotis Oikonomou, Senior Researcher at DANAOS Management Consultants S.A. Shipping

💹 11.50 - 12.00 | Performance Prediction
Nils Hagemeister, Research Associate at Fraunhofer CML

📉12.00 – 12.10 | Global Fleet Simulations
Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Senior researcher at Finnish Meteorological Institute

🙋‍♂️ 12.10 - 12.40 | Q& A Session moderated by Daniela Myland, Senior Project Manager at Hamburg Ship Model Basin

📣 12.40 – 12.45 | Conclusion

AIRCOAT air layer: positive environmental impacts

The AIRCOAT project is developing a bio-inspired solution that aims to reduce friction on ships, lowering fuel consumption and thus GHG emissions. This consists of a structured foil that retains air when submerged underwater.