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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative research on combustion, pyrolysis, and various thermal processes

Overview

Henning Bockhorn is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and specializes in research primarily within the fields of engineering and chemical engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including computational mechanics, fluid flow and transfer processes, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, notably:

  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

They have published extensively, contributing to a variety of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Combustion and Flame
  • Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Henning Bockhorn, including publication year and venue:

  • Numerical Study of Quenching Distances for Side-Wall Quenching Using Detailed Diffusion and Chemistry, 2020, Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Assessment of Numerical Accuracy and Parallel Performance of OpenFOAM and its Reacting Flow Extension EBIdnsFoam, 2023, Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Flame structure analysis and composition space modeling of thermodiffusively unstable premixed hydrogen flames - Part I: Atmospheric pressure, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Identification of Flame Regimes in Partially Premixed Combustion from a Quasi-DNS Dataset, 2020, Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Ignition of dimethyl ether/air mixtures by hot particles: Impact of low temperature chemical reactions, 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Henning Bockhorn has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Thorsten Zirwes
  • Feichi Zhang
  • Dimosthenis Trimis
  • Rainer Suntz
  • Fabian P. Hagen

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Henning Bockhorn was awarded the title of Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for innovative research on combustion, pyrolysis, and various thermal processes.

Best Publications

  • Kinetic modeling of soot formation with detailed chemistry and physics: laminar premixed flames of C2 hydrocarbons

    Jörg Appel;Henning Bockhorn;Michael Frenklach

  • Soot formation in combustion : mechanisms and models

    Henning Bockhorn

  • Soot Formation in Combustion

    Henning Bockhorn

  • Kinetic study on the thermal degradation of polypropylene and polyethylene

    H. Bockhorn;A. Hornung;U. Hornung;D. Schawaller

  • A comparative kinetic study on the pyrolysis of three different wood species

    M. Müller-Hagedorn;H. Bockhorn;L. Krebs;U. Müller

  • Investigation of the formation of high molecular hydrocarbons and soot in premixed hydrocarbon-oxygen flames

    H. Bockhorn;F. Fetting;H. W. Wenz

  • Characterisation of products from pyrolysis of waste sludges

    Tamer Karayildirim;Jale Yanik;Mithat Yuksel;Henning Bockhorn

  • Modeling laser-induced incandescence of soot: a summary and comparison of LII models

    Hope A. Michelsen;Fengshan Liu;Boris F. Kock;Hendrik Bladh

  • Mechanisms and kinetics of thermal decomposition of plastics from isothermal and dynamic measurements

    H Bockhorn;A Hornung;U Hornung

  • Description of tire pyrolysis by thermal degradation behaviour of main components

    S. Seidelt;M. Müller-Hagedorn;H. Bockhorn

  • Environmental engineering: Stepwise pyrolysis of plastic waste

    Henning Bockhorn;Janbernd Hentschel;Andreas Hornung;Ursel Hornung

  • Combustion generated fine carbonaceous particles

    Henning Bockhorn;Andrea D'Anna;Adel F. Sarofim;Hai Wang

  • A conservative fully adaptive multiresolution algorithm for parabolic PDEs

    Olivier Roussel;Kai Schneider;Alexei Tsigulin;Henning Bockhorn

  • Inception and growth of soot particles in dependence on the surrounding gas phase

    Fabian Mauss;Thomas Schäfer;Henning Bockhorn

  • Investigation of the Kinetics of Pyrolysis of PVC by TG-MS-Analysis

    R. Knümann;H. Bockhorn

  • Stepwise pyrolysis for raw material recovery from plastic waste

    H Bockhorn;A Hornung;U Hornung

  • Size distributions of nanoscaled particles and gas temperatures from time-resolved laser-induced-incandescence measurements

    Thilo Lehre;Beate Jungfleisch;Rainer Suntz;Henning Bockhorn

  • The effect of some fillers on PVC degradation

    Tamer Karayildirim;Jale Yanik;Mithat Yuksel;Mehmet Saglam

  • Screening of different metal oxide nanoparticles reveals selective toxicity and inflammatory potential of silica nanoparticles in lung epithelial cells and macrophages.

    A. Panas;C. Marquardt;O. Nalcaci;H. Bockhorn

  • Dehydrochlorination of plastic mixtures

    H Bockhorn;A Hornung;U Hornung;P Jakobströer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimosthenis Trimis
Dimosthenis Trimis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Hornung
Andreas Hornung Fraunhofer Society
Joseph W. Bozzelli
Joseph W. Bozzelli New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kai Schneider
Kai Schneider Aix-Marseille University
Markus Kraft
Markus Kraft University of Cambridge
Fritz H. Frimmel
Fritz H. Frimmel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Oliver Paschereit
Christian Oliver Paschereit Technical University of Berlin
Thomas Kolb
Thomas Kolb Northern Arizona University
Ulrich Maas
Ulrich Maas Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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