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NORBERT PETERS
NORBERT PETERS
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He grew up in Dortmund, Germany, and finished high school there in 1962, having spent a year at a Florida high school in the United States. Before starting his university studies he worked for six months in a program of practical engineering in a GermanIndian collaboration at the Rourkela steel plant in India.
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This research was always characterized by a deep physical understanding, engineering intuition, and the application of systematic mathematics-based analysis; his theoretical work was based on first principles and was always intended to result in practical models for simulation and analysis of real-world technical combustion systems. For example, he regularly attended meetings of the Society of Automotive Engineers and contributed discussions of technological advances.
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The combination of the reduction techniques and asymptotic analysis led to one of Norbert's most influential contributions in combustion science, the analysis of the structure of laminar premixed methane-air flames. This work includes the two-, three-, and four-step reduced mechanisms for methane flames, which clearly reveal the layered flame structure and represent the first application of rate-ratio asymptotics, a new and innovative asymptotic approach having much greater versatility than the previously existing activation-energy asymptotics.
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In 2000 he published his book entitled Turbulent Combustion, the clearest and most complete existing exposition of that subject, treating diffusion and premixed as well as partially premixed flames -- the book remains today the most authoritative source of information available on the topic. More recently, much of Norbert's original research was in turbulence theory, where he introduced the concept of dissipation elements that leads to a description of small-scale turbulence, and which again has been strongly influential for many researchers.
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He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Combustion Institute and organized several combustion summer schools in Aachen, and participated more recently in Princeton and European combustion summer schools. Earlier he had organized a series of International Workshops on Mathematics in Combustion, hosting the first in Aachen in 1979; he recognized the need to bring international mathematically oriented researchers together for exchanges of ideas to advance the science, which was notably effective through the eleventh workshop, held in 1991, after which international communications had progressed to a point at which these workshops were no longer needed and so were discontinued.
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