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).
Norbert Peters | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 10, 1942 |
| Died | July 4, 2015 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Technische Universität Berlin |
| Known for | Borghi–Peters diagram Laminar flamelet model Peters four-step chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combustion Aerospace Engineering |
| Institutions | Stanford University RWTH Aachen University |
| Thesis | Solving the boundary-layer equations for chemically reacting gases using a multigrid method (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Walz Karl Stephan |
Education and career
editBorn 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
edit- Norbert Peters (1992). Fifteen lectures on laminar and turbulent combustion.
- Norbert Peters (2000). Turbulent Combustion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521660822.
Awards and honours
editHe had received numerous recognitions for his contributions,[2] including:
- Honorary Doctorate degrees from University of Brussels (1994), Technical University of Darmstadt (2002) and ETH Zurich (2010)
- Zeldovich Medal of Combustion Institute (2002) [3]
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1990) [4]
- Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (since 2002)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Memorial Tributes. 2016. doi:10.17226/23394. ISBN 978-0-309-43729-5.
- ^ "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) - ^ "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) - ^ "DFG, German Research Foundation – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
External links
edit- Norbert Peters at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Institute for Combustion Technology Homepage
- Norbert Peters publications indexed by Microsoft Academic