Microcombustion research has flourished over the past decade. Yet, most of the commercial
potential of microcombustion is still to come. Aside from portable electronics, emerging …

The demand for energy sources that are compact, lightweight and powerful has significantly
increased in recent years. Traditional chemical batteries which are highly developed are …

Externally heated diverging channel method helps accurate and direct measurement of
laminar burning velocities at elevated temperatures. In the present work, this method has …

Characteristics of lean premixed conventional micro-combustion and lean non-premixed
flameless regime of methane/air are investigated in this paper by solving three-dimensional …

Flame stability limits were experimentally investigated for a parallel plate mesoscale
combustor with orthotropic walls. The combustor walls were made of pyrolytic graphite …

This paper addresses the question of choosing the appropriate reactor length, wall
thickness, and reactor opening size for self-sustained homogeneous combustion in parallel …

The micro-combustor (emitter) is a key component of the micro-thermophotovoltaic (TPV)
system. In order to improve the system efficiency, higher wall temperature and uniform …

The stability of a single-pass heat recirculation microburner is studied using computational
fluid dynamics and compared to a single channel (no recirculation) with respect to critical …

Detailed behaviors of ignition kernel (s) in a uniform stoichiometric methane/air mixture
under the temperature gradient were investigated numerically by using a fundamental …

An analytical model for flame stabilization in meso-scale channels is developed by solving
the two-dimensional partial differential equations associated with heat transport in the gas …