Norbert Peters (engineer)
{{Short description|German combustion engineer (1942–2015)}}
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|work_institutions = Stanford University
RWTH Aachen University
|alma_mater = Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Technische Universität Berlin
|thesis_title = Solving the boundary-layer equations for chemically reacting gases using a multigrid method
|thesis_year = 1971
|doctoral_advisor = Alfred Walz
Karl Stephan
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|known_for = Borghi–Peters diagram
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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
Born in Linz, Austria, he was educated at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe and later at the Technische Universität Berlin.{{Cite book | url=https://www.nap.edu/read/23394/chapter/37 |doi = 10.17226/23394|title = Memorial Tributes|year = 2016|isbn = 978-0-309-43729-5}} 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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- {{cite book|author=Norbert Peters|title=Fifteen lectures on laminar and turbulent combustion|year=1992}}
- {{cite book|author=Norbert Peters|title=Turbulent Combustion|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521660822}}
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Awards and honours
He had received numerous recognitions for his contributions,{{Cite web |url=http://www.itv.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/KontaktMitarbeiter/Norbert_Peters/Lebenslauf_Peters_deutsch1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001752/http://www.itv.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/KontaktMitarbeiter/Norbert_Peters/Lebenslauf_Peters_deutsch1.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} including:
- Honorary Doctorate degrees from University of Brussels (1994), Technical University of Darmstadt (2002) and ETH Zurich (2010)
- Zeldovich Medal of Combustion Institute (2002) {{Cite web |url=http://www.combustioninstitute.org/documents/YA%20B%20ZELDOVICH%20GOLD%20MEDAL%202008.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928141051/http://www.combustioninstitute.org/documents/YA%20B%20ZELDOVICH%20GOLD%20MEDAL%202008.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead }}
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1990) {{cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/index.html|title=DFG, German Research Foundation – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2015}}
- Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (since 2002)
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.itv.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?id=51&L=5 Institute for Combustion Technology Homepage]
- {{AcademicSearch|12757768}}
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Category:Austrian chemical engineers
Category:20th-century German chemists
Category:German fluid dynamicists
Category:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Category:Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Category:Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni