Advances in Engine Tribology
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This book is focuses on novel materials for advanced engine design. It includes the study of friction, wear, lubrication, suitable lubricant additives, and durability of different engine components of alcohol/biodiesel fueled engines. The contents highlight different lubrication systems to overcome friction and wear problems of automotive transportation systems. It also discusses different materials for future applications, wear of wheels and axels of locomotives, friction-induced noise and vibration and tribological behavior of texture surfaces in the automotive transport sector. This book…mehr

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This book is focuses on novel materials for advanced engine design. It includes the study of friction, wear, lubrication, suitable lubricant additives, and durability of different engine components of alcohol/biodiesel fueled engines. The contents highlight different lubrication systems to overcome friction and wear problems of automotive transportation systems. It also discusses different materials for future applications, wear of wheels and axels of locomotives, friction-induced noise and vibration and tribological behavior of texture surfaces in the automotive transport sector. This book will be of interest to those in academia and industry involved in alternative fuels application in IC engines, friction and wear study of various engine components, lubrication approaches and different additives of lubricants, and novel materials for advanced engine design.
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Dr. Vikram Kumar is currently at Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Kanpur where he also received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of research include Polymer and composite coating, wear, friction and lubrication, IC engine tribology, alternative fuels, advanced low temperature combustion, engine emissions measurement, particulate characterization. Dr. Kumar has edited 1 book and authored 7 book chapters, 16 research articles in international journals and conferences. He has been awarded with 'ISEES Best Ph.D. Thesis Award' (2018), 'Senior Research Associateship under 'SCIR-POOL Scientist' (2018-2021). He is a life time member of ISEES. Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked at the Engine Research Center, UW@Madison, the USA as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999 - 2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions, and particulate control, 1D and 3D Simulations of engine processes, and large-bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published 435+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 70 edited books, 92 books chapters, and 12200+ Scopus and 19000+ Google Scholar citations. He is the associate principal editor of FUEL. He has edited "Handbook of Combustion" (5 Volumes; 3168 pages), published by Wiley VCH, Germany. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), Fellow of ASME (2013), Fellow of ISEES (2015), Fellow of INAE (2015), Fellow of NASI (2018), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), and a Fellow of American Association of Advancement in Science (2020). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards such as Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; Dr. C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award: 2011; SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005. Prof. Agarwal received Prestigious CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences. Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB for his outstanding contributions. Prof. Agarwal was a highly cited researcher (2018) and was in the top ten HCR from India among 4000 HCR researchers globally in 22 fields of inquiry. Ashutosh Jena is a Master's in Thermal Science from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur; he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He has worked on exergy destruction minimisation through fuel-cell integration with combined cycle power-plant for his master's thesis. He is currently working on the development of combustion control strategies through optical diagnosis of advanced combustion concepts in diesel engine. His other area of interests includes high-pressure spray atomisation and combustion, spray and combustion simulation and alternative fuels with special interest to advanced diesel engines. He is a member of ISEES. Dr. Ram Krishna Upadhyay is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the National Rail and Transportation Institute, Vadodara, established by the Ministry of Railway, Government of India. He received his Ph.D. and M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad in Mechanical & Mining Machinery Engineering with a broad specialization in Surface Engineering and Tribology. Before joining NRTI Vadodara, Dr. Upadhyay has worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur for over three years. His research interests include lubrication and materials wear for industrial application, tribology of additive manufactured parts and nanocomposites. He is a recipient of the SERB-ACS NPDF best poster competition award by the Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, and American Chemical Society, U.S.A. He published several journal papers, book chapters, edited a book, and completed a project funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi.