Bioeconomy Institute

Professor and Glenn Murphy Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Contact Information:

3157 Sweeney Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2230
(515)294-9104
rofoxiastate.edu   

Education:

B. S., (cum laude), ChE, Kansas State University, 1982
M.S., ChE, Kansas State University, 1985
Ph.D., ChE, Kansas State University, 1987

Personal Web Site:

http://www.cbe.iastate.edu/fox.html

Areas of Interest

Our research focuses on the development, implementation and validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for Chemical Reaction Engineering. With the ever-increasing powerof desktop computers, CFD has become a powerful tool for chemical reactor analysis, design and optimization in the chemical process industry. Its successes have led to a growing demand
for greater sophistication and range in the types of problems that can be treated. Thus, the elaboration of accurate yet tractable models for the manifold physical and chemical processes that occur in industrial-scale reactors is still very much an open and challenging field of inquiry.
In attacking these problems, our modeling efforts draw on a large range of tools originating in
diverse fields including probability theory and stochastic processes, non-linear dynamics,
computational science and engineering, chemical reaction engineering, and transport phenomena.duction