Professor Robert Robson

Teaching

• PH1007 – Fundamental Physics

• PH4011 – Physics Honours Part 1 of 2

• PH4012 – Physics Honours Part 2 of 2

Research

• Positrons in gases and soft-condensed matter

• Gaseous electronics

• Boundary layer meteorology

Further information on Professor Robert Robson’s activities

Professional Activity

• President, Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows http://www.humboldtaustralia.org.au

Selected Publications

Full list of publications

Books

“Introductory transport theory for charged particles in neutral gases” (ISBN 981-270-011-0 , World Scientific, Singapore, 2006), R.E. Robson

“Physical principles of meteorology and environmental physics” (ISBN 981-281-384-5, World Scientific, Singapore, 2008), D.J. Blake and R.E. Robson

Papers in refereed journals

“A thermodynamic treatment of anisotropic diffusion in an electric field", Aust. J. Phys. 25, 685-93 (1972), R.E. Robson

“Diffusivity of charge carriers in semiconductors in strong fields", Phys. Rev. Lett. 31, 25-8 (1973), R.E. Robson

“Diffusion cooling of electrons in a finite gas", Phys. Rev. A13, 1536-42 (1976), R.E. Robson

“Moment theory of electron drift and diffusion in neutral gases in an electrostatic field", J. Chem. Phys. 71, 3483-98 (1979), S.L. Lin, R.E. Robson and E.A. Mason

“Kinetic theory of charged particle swarms in neutral gases", Aust. J. Phys. 33, 343-448 (1980), K. Kumar, H.R. Skullerud and R.E. Robson

“On the scattering of sound in a turbulent flow", Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 107, 345-50 (1981), R.E. Robson and R. Potts

“Velocity distribution function and transport coefficients of electron swarms in gases: I Spherical harmonics decomposition of Boltzmann's equation", Phys. Rev. A 33, 2068-77 (1986), R.E. Robson and K.F. Ness

“Dispersion in a stable atmospheric layer with a quadratic exchange coefficient", Boundary Layer Met. 39, 207-18 (1987), R.E. Robson

“A simple model of countergradient flow", Phys. Fluids 6, 1952-5 (1994), R.E. Robson and C.L. Mayocchi

“Spatially periodic structures in electron swarms and the Franck-Hertz experiment, J. Phys. B33, 507-20 (2000), R.E. Robson, B. Li and R.D. White

“Negative electron mobility, Joule cooling and the Second Law", J. Chem. Phys. 119, 11249-52 (2003), R.E. Robson, Z. Petrović, D. Loffhagen and Z. Raspopović

“Fluid equations for low temperature plasma and charged particle swarms: Formulation and foundations", Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 1303-20 (2005), R.E. Robson, R.D. White and Z. Lj. Petrović

“Periodic electron structures in gases: A fluid model of the window phenomenon", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 124502 (2008), P. Nicoletopoulos and R.E. Robson