Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 650-736-1995 | Fax: 650-725-7834
Stanford University
Center for Turbulence Research
Building 500, Room 500M
Stanford, CA 94305-3035
Email: H.Pitsch@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~hpitsch

Degrees

M.Sc. University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen - Mechanical Engineering (1993)
Ph.D. University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen - Mechanical Engineering (1998)

Research Interests

Professor Pitsch's 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.

Recent Publications

• Pitsch, H., Cha, C. M., Fedotov, S., Flamelet modeling of non-premixed turbulent combustion with local extinction and re-ignition , Comb. Theory Modelling, 2002.
  
  
• Pitsch, H., Improved Pollutant Predictions in Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Non-Premixed Combustion by Considering Scalar Dissipation Rate Fluctuations, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 29, to appear, 2002.
  
  
• Pitsch, H., Duchamp de Lageneste, L. Large-Eddy Simulation of Premixed Turbulent Combustion Using a Level-Set Approach, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 29, to appear, 2002.
  
  
• Cha, C. M., Pitsch, H. Higher-Order Conditional Moment Closure Modelling of Local Extinction and Reignition in Turbulent Combustion, Comb. Theory Modelling, 6, pp. 425-437, 2002.
  
  
• Seshadri, K., Bai, K. S., Pitsch, H., Asymptotic Structure of Rich Methane Flames, Comb. Flame, 127, pp. 2265-2277, 2001.
  
  
• Cha, C. M., Kosaly, G., Pitsch, H. Modeling extinction and reignition in turbulent nonpremixed combustion using a doubly-conditional moment closure approach, Phys. Fluids, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 3824-3834, 2001.
  
  
• Pitsch, H., Fedotov, S., Investigation of Scalar Dissipation Rate Fluctuations in Non-Premixed Turbulent Combustion Using a Stochastic Approach, Comb. Theory Modelling, 5, pp. 41-57, 2001.
  
  

More Publications

Projects

AFOSR: "Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
DOE-ASCI: "Modeling of Aircraft Engine Combustion"