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). Born in

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, Austria, he was educated at the Karlsruhe University of Technology and later at the Technical University of Berlin. He worked in

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

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in turbulent combustion as well as for the systematic generation of reduced reaction mechanisms from detailed reaction mechanisms. 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 (2010) * Zeldovich 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 Fluid dynamicists Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners People from Linz Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Technical University of Berlin alumni 21st-century German chemists

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