Norbert Peters (engineer)
Norbert Peters | |
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| Born | July 10, 1942 |
| Died | July 4, 2015 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Technische Universität Berlin |
| Known for | Borghi–Peters diagram Laminar flamelet model Peters four-step chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combustion Aerospace Engineering |
| Institutions | Stanford University RWTH Aachen University |
| Thesis | Solving the boundary-layer equations for chemically reacting gases using a multigrid method (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Walz Karl Stephan |
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).