Titre : Fire-air: a story of flame 

Auteurs : Roger Prud’homme
, Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou
, Guillaume Legros,  

Revue : Thermodynamics of Interfaces and Fluid Mechanics 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 6 

Date : 2023/12/21 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1053 

ISSN : 2514-4642 

Résumé : We relate how at the end of the 18th century, a discovery linked to combustion, could challenge the idea that we had about constituents of matter and lead to revolutionize chemistry. A correct interpretation of this discovery had to be found and for that to question existing theories and dogmas. It then took a fundamental reflection on experimental work and the importance of quantitative measurements, to invent a scientific way of operating. The innovations and the progress made during the following two centuries in physics and chemistry, but also in thermodynamics and mechanics, brought to the current situation where combustion has found its place as a science in its own right. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience