Reitz, Rolf D.

Professor Reitz's research interests include internal combustion engines and sprays. He is currently developing advanced computer models for fuel injected engines, including diesel and spark-ignited engines.

Reitz also performs engine experiments using a fully instrumented single-cylinder research diesel engine equipped with programmable high-pressure electronic fuel injection systems. The experimental results are used to study the effect of fuel injection characteristics (including variable rate and multiple injections) on diesel engine soot and NOx emissions, as well as to provide validation data for the computer models.

Reitz also conducts spray experiments in a high-pressure spray facility to study the mechanisms of spray breakup. His current interests are in air-assist atomization (which is used in modern direct-injected two-stroke engines) and other applications, such as paint spraying, and dispersing industrial and household products.

Before joining the university in 1989, Reitz spent six years at the General Motors Research Laboratories, three years as a research staff member at Princeton University, and two years as a research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

He is a consultant to many industries and is a member of the Combustion Institute and the Society of Automotive Engineers. He serves on the executive board of the Institute of Liquid Atomization and Spraying Systems--North and South America.

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