Norbert Peters (engineer)
Norbert Peters (born July 10, 1942 in Linz ; † July 4, 2015 in Vannes ) was director of the Institute for Technical Combustion (since 2005, previously Institute for Technical Mechanics) at RWTH Aachen University until his retirement from 1988 .
Peters received his scientific training at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , the Technical University of Berlin and the École Practique des Hautes Études (Paris, France). Before his activity as institute director and university professor (C4) at the RWTH Aachen, from 1988 until his retirement in 2010, he was an assistant professor at the TU Berlin (1972–1976) and a scientific advisor and professor (C3) at the RWTH Aachen (1976–1988) active. Peters also worked as a visiting professor at the University of California , San Diego, where he also held an associate professorship from 1996, at the Combustion Research Facility, Sandia Laboratories in Livermore, California, and as a professor in the Department for Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University .
Peter's research focus was on laminar and turbulent combustion. He is best known in this field through his work on the Flamelet model and the systematic development of reduced reaction mechanisms. He is also the author of the textbook Turbulent Combustion . He has received numerous honors and memberships for his research. Peters received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Brussels (1994), Darmstadt (2002) and the ETH Zurich (2010). He was a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and, from 1999, of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , as well as a Foreign Associate of the Academy of Engineering in the United States. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1990 and the Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute in 2002.
literature
- Franz Pischinger : Obituary for Norbert Peters at the meeting of the class for engineering and economics on November 5, 2015. In: Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (2017), pp. 95–96 ( online )
Web links
- Literature by and about Norbert Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Norbert Peters at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- List of publications by Norbert Peters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aachener Zeitung on July 15, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian engineer, director of the Institute for Technical Combustion at RWTH Aachen University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 2015 |
| Place of death | Vannes |