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Maria del Carmen Thomsen Solis

Assistant Professor

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Combustion, Ignition and Flame Spread, Microgravity, Heat and Mass Transfer, Solid Fuel Burning, Fire Safety, CFD modeling

Educación

  •  Ingeniería Civil Industrial , UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2012
  •  Ingeniería Civil Industrial , UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2013
  •  Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Estados Unidos, 2016
  •  Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Estados Unidos, 2018

Experiencia Académica

  •   Guest Lecturer Other

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

    Berkeley, Estados Unidos

    2019 - 2019

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Engineering and Science

    Santiago, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

  •   Instructor - Heat Transfer (ME109) Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

    Berkeley, Estados Unidos

    2019 - 2019

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    University of California Berkeley

    Berkeley, Estados Unidos

    2018 - 2020

Premios y Distinciones

  •   Sheldon Tieszen Student Award for best papers

    The International Association for Fire Safety Science

    Estados Unidos, 2017

    Distinguished paper in Fire Research, "Flame spread limits (LOC) of fire resistant fabrics" by M. Thomsen, D.C. Murphy, C. Fernandez-pello, D.L. Urban, and G.A. Ruff


 

Article (12)

Downward Flame Spread Rate Over PMMA Rods Under External Radiant Heating

Thomsen, Maria; Carmignani, Luca; Rodriguez, Andy; Scudiere, Charles; Liveretou, Christina; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Gollner, Michael; Olson, Sandra; Ferkul, Paul

Article ISI
FIRE TECHNOLOGY  (2022)

Effect of sub-atmospheric pressure on the characteristics of concurrent/upward flame spread over a thin solid

Carmignani, Luca; Garg, Priya; Thomsen, Maria; Gollner, Michael J.; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Urban, David L.; Ruff, Gary A.

Article ISI
COMBUSTION AND FLAME  (2022)

On simulating the effect of gravity on concurrent flame spread over thin paper through variations in ambient pressure

Thomsen, Maria; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Urban, David L.; Ruff, Gary A.

Article ISI
COMBUSTION AND FLAME  (2021)

Three-wavelength broadband soot pyrometry technique for axisymmetric flames

Cruz, Juan Jose; Escudero, Felipe; Alvarez, Emilio; Figueira da Silva, Luis Fernando; Carvajal, Gonzalo; Thomsen, Maria; Fuentes, Andres

Article ISI
OPTICS LETTERS  (2021)

Buoyancy Effect on Downward Flame Spread Over PMMA Cylinders

Thomsen, Maria; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Huang, Xinyan; Olson, Sandra; Ferkul, Paul

Article ISI
FIRE TECHNOLOGY  (2020)

Buoyancy effects on concurrent flame spread over thick PMMA

Thomsen, Maria; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Ruff, Gary A.; Urban, David L.

Article ISI
COMBUSTION AND FLAME  (2019)

Concurrent flame spread over externally heated Nomex under mixed convection flow

Thomsen, Maria; Huang, Xinyan; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Urban, David L.; Ruff, Gary A.

Article ISI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE  (2019)

On simulating concurrent flame spread in reduced gravity by reducing ambient pressure

Thomsen, Maria; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Urban, David L.; Ruff, Gary A.; Olson, Sandra L.

Article ISI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE  (2019)

Opposed flow burning of PMMA cylinders in normoxic atmospheres

Thomsen, Maria; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos; Huang, Xinyan; Olson, Sandra L.; Ferkul, Paul, V

Article ISI
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL  (2019)

Transition from opposed flame spread to fuel regression and blow off: Effect of flow, atmosphere, and microgravity

Huang, Xinyan; Link, Shmuel; Rodriguez, Andy; Thomsen, Maria; Olson, Sandra; Ferkul, Paul; Fernandez-Pello, Carlos

Article ISI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE  (2019)

Flame spread limits (LOC) of fire resistant fabrics

Thomsen, Maria; Murphy, Daniel C.; Fernandez-pello, Carlos; Urban, David L.; Ruff, Gary A.

Article ISI
FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL  (2017)

Soot measurements in candle flames

Thomsen, M.C.; Fuentes, A.; Demarco, R.; Volkwein, C.; Consalvi, J.-L.; Reszka, P.

Article ISI SCOPUS
EXPERIMENTAL THERMAL AND FLUID SCIENCE  (2017)

Proyecto (5)

Fire Retardant Apparatus (FRA): fomentando la adaptación al Cambio Climático a través de la optimización del combate de incendios forestales

Pedro Reszka; Fuentes, Andrés; Demarco, Rodrigo; Thomsen, Maria

Proyecto
 (2022)

Understanding the connections between abiotic stress and forest vulnerability to fires

Demarco, Rodrigo; Auat, Fernando; Pedro Reszka; Ledger, Thomas; Thomsen, Maria; Fuentes, Andrés

Proyecto
 (2022)

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GAS PHASE AND RADIATIVE PROPERTIES IN BOUNDARY LAYER DIFFUSION FLAMES SPREADING IN SOLID FUELS

Thomsen, Maria

Proyecto
 (2020)

SOOT PRODUCTION IN AN INVERSE DIFFUSION FLAME: APPLICATION FOR NON-CONVENTIONAL FUELS

Fuentes, Andrés; Thomsen, Maria

Proyecto
 (2013)

SOOT PRODUCTION IN A LAMINAR DIFFUSION FLAME: APPLICATION FOR NON-CONVENTIONAL FUELS

Fuentes, Andrés; Thomsen, Maria

Proyecto
 (2010)

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Maria Thomsen

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

2
Andres Fuentes

Professor Adjunto

Departamento de Industrias

UNIVERSIDAD TÉNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Gonzalo Carvajal

Assistant Professor

Electronics

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Rodrigo Demarco

Profesor adjunto

Departamento de Industrias

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Felipe Escudero

Post Doctorate

Industrias

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Pedro Reszka

Associate Professor

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile