Dr. Hinze specializes in the application of mechanical engineering principles to the analysis and investigation of automotive systems, industrial processes, fires, and explosions. He has investigated fires and explosions involving motor vehicles, industrial and manufacturing processes, and residential appliances.
Dr. Hinze’s primary areas of expertise are automotive engineering, power generation technology and combustion, and his research has concentrated on the investigation of flow and combustion phenomena in spark ignition engines. Dr. Hinze has used high-speed visualization as well as laser diagnostic techniques such as laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV), laser induced fluorescence (LIF), and Raman spectroscopy in his research. In addition, he has performed computational analyses involving combustion chemistry, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and thermodynamics.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Hinze worked as a researcher at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He has also performed research at the Sloan Automotive Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Myers TJ, Hinze PC, Kytömaa HK. Fire and explosion in an explosives conditioning bunker. Proceedings, 42nd Annual Loss Prevention Symposium, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2008.
Davis SG, Diamond A, Gans W, Hinze PC, Kytömaa H. Don’t judge a crimp by its cover. Connector Specifier 2004; 20(10).
Carpenter AR, Hinze PC. System safety analysis of hydrogen and methanol vehicles fuels. Process Safety Progress, 2004.
Martin RJ, Myers TJ, Hinze PC, Kytömaa HK. Test your incinerator knowledge. Chemical Engineering Progress 2003; 99(2):36–39.
Martin RJ, Hinze PC, Myers TJ, Kytömaa HK. Thermal oxidizing systems. Hydrocarbon Processing 2002; 81(11):79–80.
Knaus DC, Gouldin FC, Miles PC, Hinze, PC. Measurement of instantaneous flamelet surface normals and the burning rate in a SI engine. SAE Paper 1999-01-3543, SAE International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition, October 1999.
Hinze PC, Miles PC. Quantitative measurements of residual and fresh charge mixing in a modern SI engine using spontaneous Raman scattering. SAE Paper 1999-01-1106, SAE International Congress and Exposition, March 1999.
Hinze PC, Miles PC. Characterization of the mixing of fresh charge with combustion residuals using laser Raman scattering with broadband detection. SAE Paper 981428, SAE International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, SAE Trans., Vol. 107, May 1998.
Shen H, Hinze PC, Heywood JB. A study of cycle-to-cycle variations in SI engines using a modified quasi-dimensional model. SAE paper 961187, SAE International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, SAE Trans., Vol. 105, May 1996.
Shen H, Hinze PC, Heywood JB. A model for flame initiation and early development in SI engines and its application to cycle-to-cycle variations. SAE paper 942049, SAE International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition, SAE Trans., Vol. 103, October 1994.
Hinze PC, Cheng WK. Flame kernel development in a methanol fueled engine. SAE paper 932649, SAE International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition, SAE Trans., Vol. 102, October 1993.
Presentations
Hinze PC, Cheng WK. Assessing the factors affecting SI engine cycle-to-cycle variations at idle. 27th Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, 1998.
Hinze PC, Cheng WK. Effects of charge composition on SI engine cyclic variations at idle. 4th International Symposium on Diagnostics and Modeling of Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines (COMODIA 98), Kyoto, Japan, July 1998.