

Understanding the role of fire retardants on the discontinuous ignition of wildland fuels, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, José Ignacio Rivera, Fernando Ebensperger, Francisco Valenzuela, Leonardo Escandar, Pedro Reszka, Andrés Fuentes, November 2022
Fernando Ebensperger is a Chilean PhD student in Fire Protection Engineering at WPI, guided by Dr. Albert Simeoni. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Fernando developed an interest in fire protection engineering. His research focuses on firebrand generation for vegetal fuels using experimental techniques and computational modeling, with implications on the actual models.

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Scholarly Work
Understanding the role of fire retardants on the discontinuous ignition of wildland fuels, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, José Ignacio Rivera, Fernando Ebensperger, Francisco Valenzuela, Leonardo Escandar, Pedro Reszka, Andrés Fuentes, November 2022