Visiting Fellow
Bushfire modelling, combustion phenomena
Phone:
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: r.weber@adfa.edu.au

Rod was born in Geelong and educated at North Geelong Primary School, North Geelong High School, The University of Melbourne and The University of Tasmania.

He did a short stint at University of New England as a Lecturer in Physics, then a Postdoc at UNSW at ADFA. He has been at UNSW at ADFA since 1987 and is now an Associate Professor there working on a range of problems related to the modelling of bushfires and other combustion phenomena.

Professional Activities

Academic Highlights

Selected Publications

Gubernov, V., Mercer, G.N., Sidhu, H.S. and Weber, R.O., 2004: Evans function stability of non-adiabatic combustion waves, Proceedings Royal Society London A 460: 2415-2435.

Watt, S.D., Mercer, G.N., Sidhu, H.S. and Weber, R.O., 2003: The Thermal Ignition Problem in a Cube, ANZIAM Journal 44:C820-C835..

Dold, J.W., Weber, R.O., Thatcher, R.W. and Shah, A.A., 2003: Flame Balls with Thermally Sensitive Intermediate Kinetics, Combust. Theory Modelling 7:175-203.

Weber, R.O., 2001: Wildland Fire Spread Models, In E.A. Johnson and K.Miyanishi (eds) Forest Fires, pp.151--169, Academic Press.

Mercer, G.N. and Weber, R.O., 2001: Fire Plumes, by. In E.A. Johnson and K.Miyanishi (eds) Forest Fires, pp. 225-255, Academic Press.