Effects of thermal and chemical surface–flame interaction on flame quenching

Incomplete combustion due to quenching in a narrow confinement has been a major problem for the realization of a reliable microcombustion device. In most microcombustors, the effects of flow are absent in the quenching because the flow is laminar and no severe stretch is present. In such a circumstance, quenching is mainly caused either by heat loss or by removal of active radicals at the combustor wall. An experimental investigation was carried...