2026 Kaoru Maruta: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	46	1421	1314	26	24	209	9564

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative research on the characterization of microscale combustion systems

Overview

Kaoru Maruta is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Chemical Engineering, with a particular focus on combustion and related processes. Their research spans multiple specialized subfields including Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Artificial Intelligence.

Maruta's work covers various main topics in advanced combustion and energy research. These include:

Combustion and flame dynamics
Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
Combustion and Detonation Processes
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
Advanced Battery Technologies Research
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Information and Cryptography

They have published numerous papers in significant venues within the combustion research community. Frequent publication venues include:

Combustion and Flame (12 publications)
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (10 publications)
Combustion Science and Technology (3 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
Physics of Fluids (2 publications)

Among the recent papers authored in collaboration with others are:

Effects of mixture composition on oxidation and reactivity of DME/NH3/air mixtures examined by a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile, 2021, Combustion and Flame
Study on oxidation and pyrolysis of carbonate esters using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile. Part I: Reactivities of dimethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate and diethyl carbonate, 2021, Combustion and Flame
Study on oxidation and pyrolysis of carbonate esters using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile. Part II: Chemical kinetic modeling of ethyl methyl carbonate, 2021, Combustion and Flame
Experimental and modeling study on pyrolysis of ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate mixture, 2022, Combustion and Flame
Experimental and chemical kinetic modeling study of ethylene carbonate oxidation: A lithium-ion battery electrolyte surrogate model, 2024, Combustion and Flame

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Hisashi Nakamura, Youhi Morii, Takuya Tezuka, Keisuke Kanayama, and Takaki Akiba.

Kaoru Maruta was recognized by the Combustion Institute as a Fellow in 2018 for innovative research on the characterization of microscale combustion systems.

Best Publications

Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research

Yiguang Ju;Kaoru Maruta

972
Citations
Characteristics of combustion in a narrow channel with a temperature gradient

Kaoru Maruta;Takuya Kataoka;Nam Il Kim;Sergey Minaev

642
Citations
Micro and mesoscale combustion

Kaoru Maruta

526
Citations
On the extinction limit and flammability limit of non-adiabatic stretched methane–air premixed flames

Yiguang Ju;Hongsheng Guo;Kaoru Maruta;Fengshan Liu

422
Citations
Flame stabilization and emission of small Swiss-roll combustors as heaters

Nam Il Kim;Souichiro Kato;Takuya Kataoka;Takeshi Yokomori

379
Citations
Experimental and numerical investigation on combustion characteristics of premixed hydrogen/air flame in a micro-combustor with a bluff body

Jianlong Wan;Aiwu Fan;Kaoru Maruta;Hong Yao

282
Citations
Burning velocity of turbulent premixed flames in a high-pressure environment

Hideaki Kobayashi;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta;Takashi Niioka

271
Citations
Extinction limits of catalytic combustion in microchannels

Kaoru Maruta;Koichi Takeda;Jeongmin Ahn;Kevin Borer

236
Citations
Development and scale effects of small Swiss-roll combustors

Nam Il Kim;Satoshi Aizumi;Takeshi Yokomori;Soichiro Kato

229
Citations
Extinction of low-stretched diffusion flame in microgravity

Kaoru Maruta;Masaharu Yoshida;Hongsheng Guo;Yiguang Ju

212
Citations
Characteristics of Microscale Combustion in a Narrow Heated Channel

K. Maruta;J. K. Parc;K. C. Oh;T. Fujimori

198
Citations
Experimental study on general correlation of turbulent burning velocity at high pressure

Hideaki Kobayashi;Yasuharu Kawabata;Kaoru Maruta

191
Citations
A numerical study on propagation of premixed flames in small tubes

Nam Il Kim;Kaoru Maruta

190
Citations
Turbulence measurements and observations of turbulent premixed flames at elevated pressures up to 3.0 MPa

Hideaki Kobayashi;Teppei Nakashima;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta

189
Citations
Design and experimental results of small-scale rotary engines

Kelvin Fu;Aaron J. Knobloch;Fabian C. Martinez;David C. Walther

174
Citations
Nonlinear dynamics of flame in a narrow channel with a temperature gradient

S. Minaev;K. Maruta;R. Fursenko

170
Citations
Radiation extinction limit of counterflow premixed lean methane-air flames

Hongsheng Guo;Yiguang Ju;Kaoru Maruta;Takashi Niioka

157
Citations
Interactions between heat transfer, flow field and flame stabilization in a micro-combustor with a bluff body

Aiwu Fan;Jianlong Wan;Kaoru Maruta;Hong Yao

156
Citations
Stabilized three-stage oxidation of DME/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile

Hiroshi Oshibe;Hisashi Nakamura;Takuya Tezuka;Susumu Hasegawa

149
Citations
Stabilized three-stage oxidation of gaseous n-heptane/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile

Akira Yamamoto;Hiroshi Oshibe;Hisashi Nakamura;Takuya Tezuka

139
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo

Aiwu Fan Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Hideaki Kobayashi Tohoku University

Yiguang Ju Princeton University

Shigenao Maruyama Tohoku University

Hongsheng Guo National Research Council Canada

Sudarshan Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Wei Liu Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Hong Yao Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Yuji Suzuki University of Tokyo

External Links

Personal website of Kaoru Maruta Google Scholar page

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