Heinz Pitsch

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

Heinz Pitsch has been an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University since 2003. He has received his Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, spent one year at the Center for Energy and Combustion Science at UC San Diego and came to Stanford in 1999. His main research interests are in combustion theory, modeling of turbulent reacting flows with large-eddy simulations, development and analysis of chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms, modeling of pollutant formation, development of numerical methods, investigation and modeling of combustion instabilities, and model applications to modern aircraft engine combustion, reciprocating engine combustion, and chemical processing.

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