Dr. Rakesh Kumar Maurya has been a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar since August 2013. Before joining IIT Ropar, he was working as Senior Research Associate (Pool Scientist-CSIR) at IIT Kanpur. He received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He received the Early Career Research Award from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, New Delhi. He is also a recipient of Young Scientist Award (2016) from International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. He is the author of the book titled Characteristics and Control of Low Temperature Combustion Engines: Employing Gasoline, Ethanol and Methanol published by Springer International Publishing AG in 2018. He has also edited one book published by Springer and published 15 book chapters and more than 40 international peer-reviewed journal papers. He teaches and conducts research in the area of internal combustion engines. His areas of interest are low-temperature engine combustion, alternative fuels, engine combustion diagnostics, engine instrumentation, combustion and emission control, particulate matter characterization, engine management systems, engineering ethics and philosophy of science.

Maximizes readers' understanding of the construction, working principles, installation, signal processing and limitations of the transducers used for combustion analysis

Provides a range of different models for estimating heat release and heat transfer for combustion quality analysis

Describes statistical and chaotic methods used for combustion stability analysis and the different knock indices and combustion noise metrics evaluated from cylinder pressure signal

Reinforces concepts presented with end of chapter summary discussions and questions

Explains methods used for estimation of engine parameters such as TDC, compression ratio, air-fuel ratio, residual gas fraction and wall temperature using in-cylinder pressure measurement