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Norbert Peters (engineer)

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Norbert Peters
Born(1942-07-10)July 10, 1942
DiedJuly 4, 2015(2015-07-04) (aged 72)
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
Technische Universität Berlin
Known forBorghi–Peters diagram
Laminar flamelet model
Peters four-step chemistry
Scientific career
FieldsCombustion
Aerospace Engineering
InstitutionsStanford University
RWTH Aachen University
Thesis Solving the boundary-layer equations for chemically reacting gases using a multigrid method  (1971)
Doctoral advisorAlfred Walz
Karl Stephan

Norbert Peters (10 July 1942 – 4 July 2015) was a professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and one of the world-wide authorities in the field of combustion engineering. He headed the Institut für Technische Verbrennung (Institute for Combustion Technology).

Education and career

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Born in Linz, Austria, he was educated at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe and later at the Technische Universität Berlin.[1] He worked in Rourkela Steel Plant for six months.

Peters's primary research interest was in the field of combustion science, especially turbulent flames. The interaction between turbulence and combustion constituted an important part of his research. He was author of the book titled Turbulent Combustion, a monograph with excellent but challenging insights on the advances, problems, and active research in the field of combustion in turbulent flow media. He was well known for his ideas on the Laminar flamelet model in turbulent combustion as well as for the systematic generation of reduced reaction mechanisms from detailed reaction mechanisms.

Books

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  • Norbert Peters (1992). Fifteen lectures on laminar and turbulent combustion.
  • Norbert Peters (2000). Turbulent Combustion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521660822.

Awards and honours

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He had received numerous recognitions for his contributions,[2] including:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Memorial Tributes. 2016. doi:10.17226/23394. ISBN 978-0-309-43729-5.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-04-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2010-04-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "DFG, German Research Foundation – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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