Norbert Peters (10 July 1942 – 4 July 2015) was a professor at

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, 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

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, Austria, he was educated at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...

and later at the

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

. He worked in

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for six months. Peters's primary research interest was in the field of combustion science, especially

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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.

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Awards and honours

He had received numerous recognitions for his contributions, including: * Honorary Doctorate degrees from University of Brussels (1994),

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(2002) and

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

(2010) *

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Medal of Combustion Institute (2002) * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of

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(1990) * Member of the United States

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(since 2002)

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Institute for Combustion Technology Homepage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Norbert 1942 births 2015 deaths Austrian chemical engineers 20th-century German chemists German fluid dynamicists Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Scientists from Linz Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Technische Universität Berlin alumni 21st-century German chemists

Education and career

Books

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