Kick-off meeting of the MSCA Doctoral Network TRACES on the 12th and 13th of December at Politecnico di Milano.
TRACES is a European Joint Doctorate network whose main goal is to provide high-level training in the field of in-flight icing to deliver a new generation of high achieving Doctoral Researchers (DR) in the diverse disciplines necessary for mastering the complexity of ice accretion and its mitigation in aircraft and aeroengines. TRACES will provide the transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in academia, research centres and industry, and it will allow DRs to impact on diverse sectors in addition to aviation: wind energy, ground and maritime transportation, civil engineering. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of hands-on research training, non-academic secondments and courses and workshops on scientific and complementary soft skills facilitated by the academic/non-academic composition of the consortium. Cutting-edge research carried in TRACES targets three major knowledge gaps in icing sciences and technologies: 1) the modelling of ice inception, ice-wall and
liquid-wall interfaces, which is carried out under uncertainty to deliver robust icing models; 2) innovative multilevel ice detection systems and innovative ice protection systems suitable for current and next generation, full- or hybrid-electric aircraft; 3) Virtual certification techniques for certification by simulation of aero-subsystems or complete aircraft flying in icing conditions.
