Forschung:

• Soot Modeling

Lehre:

• Thermodynamik I

• Q. Mao, L. Cai, R. Langer and H. Pitsch. The role of resonance-stabilized radical chain reactions in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon growth: Theoretical calculation and kinetic modeling. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021.
• R. Langer, J. Lotz, L. Cai, F. vom Lehn, K. Leppkes, U. Naumann and H. Pitsch. Adjoint sensitivity analysis of kinetic, thermochemical, and transport data of nitrogen and ammonia chemistry. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021.
• L. Cai, S. Jacobs, R. Langer, F. vom Lehn, K.A. Heufer and H. Pitsch. Auto-ignition of oxymethylene ethers (OMEn, n = 2–4) as promising synthetic e-fuels from renewable electricity: shock tube experiments and automatic mechanism generation. Fuel, vol. 264, page 116711, 2020. [DOI]
• T. Falkenstein, A. Rezchikova, R. Langer, M. Bode, S. Kang and H. Pitsch. The role of differential diffusion during early flame kernel development under engine conditions - part I: Analysis of the heat-release-rate response. Combustion and Flame, vol. 221, pages 502-515, November 2020. [DOI]
• L. Cai, F. vom Lehn, R. Langer and H. Pitsch. Highly-automated model development for promising e-fuels from renewable electricity. In Fuels, Processes, and Combustion Physics in the Energy Transformation - 715. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, 08-12 March, Bad Honnef, Germany, 2020.
• L. Cai, S. Jacob, F. vom Lehn, R. Langer, K.A. Heufer and H. Pitsch. Automatic mechanism generation for auto-ignition of the promising e-fuels oxymethylene ethers (OMEn, n = 2-4). In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Smart Energy Carriers, January 21-23, Naples, Italy, 2019.
• A. Wick, R. Langer, A. Attili, M. Frenklach and H. Pitsch. Statistical Modeling of Aerosol Dynamics in a Turbulent Flame. In Seventeenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion, May 6-8, Aachen, Germany, 2019.
• R. Langer, A. Cuoci, L. Cai, U. Burke, C. Olm, H. Curran, T. Turányi and H. Pitsch. A Comparison of Numerical Frameworks for Modelling Homogeneous Reactors and Laminar Flames. In Joint Meeting of the German and Italian Sections of the Combustion Institute, May 23 - 26, Sorrento, Italy, 2018.
• R. Langer, A. Cuoci, L. Cai, U. Burke, C. Olm, H. Curran, T. Turányi, S. Klippenstein and H. Pitsch. Comparing the results and performance of chemical kinetic modeling software. In 4th International Workshop on Flame Chemistry, July 28th-29th, Dublin, Ireland, 2018.
• L. Cai, R. Langer and H. Pitsch. Automatic chemical mechanism generation using optimized rate rules. Case study: Ether oxidation. In Sixteenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion, April 3rd - 5th, Orlando, USA, 2017.
• R. Langer, A. Wick, M.E. Mueller and H. Pitsch. Multivariate Modeling of Soot Particles with the Hybrid Method of Moments. In 22nd European Aerosol Conference, September 4th - 9th, Tours, France, 2016.