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, vol. 38, pages 1459-1466, 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, vol. 38, pages 777-785, 2021. [DOI]
• 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.