Introduction to Combustion. Elements of Measurement Systems. Data Acquisition. Data Analysis. Thermal Flow Measurements. Gas Composition Measurements. Optical Combustion Diagnostics.

This book provides an overview of the key aspects of combustion-including chemical kinetics, premixed flame, diffusion flame, and liquid droplet combustion-followed by a discussion of the general elements of measurement systems and data acquisition and analysis. Building upon this foundation, the text proceeds to address measurements, instruments, analyses, and diagnostics specific to experimental combustion. It not only describes the construction, working principles, application areas, and limitations of the necessary instruments, but also details the procedure for uncertainty analysis in practical combustion experiments.

Dr. D. P. Mishra is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, where he has been instrumental in establishing a combustion laboratory. His areas of research include combustion, computational fluid dynamics, and atomization. He is also an assistant editor for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier, USA, and serves as an editorial board member for several other international journals. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Young Scientist Award, INSA-JSPS Fellowship, Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee Memorial Award, and Samanta Chadrasekhar Award. Dr. Mishra has six Indian patents and more than 178 research papers published in referred journals and conference proceedings. He has authored two textbooks titled Fundamentals of Combustion, published by Prentice Hall of India, and Engineering Thermodynamics, published by Cengage India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.