💦 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
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.