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  1. Reciprocating thermochemical mediator of pre-biotic polymer decomposition on mineral surfaces

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, February 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  2. Indigenous Mathematics: From Mainstream Misconceptions to Educational Enrichment

    Article • Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology Education, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rowena Ball

  3. Does Stochasticity Favour Complexity in a Prebiotic Peptide-Micelle System?

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rowena Ball

  4. Origin of life hosted by highly excitable media

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Rowena Ball

  5. Toy trains, loaded dice and the origin of life: dimerization on mineral surfaces under periodic drive with Gaussian inputs

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, November 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  6. The Life Story of Hydrogen Peroxide III: Chirality and Physical Effects at the Dawn of Life

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rowena Ball

  7. Thiosulfate-Hydrogen Peroxide Redox Oscillator as pH Driver for Ribozyme Activity in the RNA World

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rowena Ball

  8. Hydrogen peroxide as driver for the RNA world

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, July 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  9. Thiosulfate-hydrogen peroxide redox oscillator as pH driver for ribozyme activity in the RNA world

    Article • June 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Rowena Ball

  10. Using the second law first: Improving the thermodynamic efficiency of carbon dioxide separation from gas streams in an Endex calcium looping system

    Article • Applied Thermal Engineering, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  11. The Bhopal Disaster and Peroxide Bombs: Nanoscale Aspects of Oscillatory Thermal Instability

    Article • October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rowena Ball

  12. Entropy generation analyses of Endex and conventional calcium looping processes for <mml:math altimg="si114.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3...

    Article • Fuel, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  13. Driver for primordial RNA replication

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, June 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  14. Hydrogen peroxide thermochemical oscillator as driver for primordial RNA replication

    Article • March 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Rowena Ball

  15. Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide by vegetation fires

    Article • Climate Research, March 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Rowena Ball

  16. Dangers of disregarding dynamics

    Article • Process Safety and Environmental Protection, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  17. Thermal Oscillations in the Decomposition of Organic Peroxides: Identification of a Hazard, Utilization, and Suppression

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, December 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  18. Object-oriented simulation of an Endex reactor for separation of carbon dioxide from flue emissions

    Article • Computers & Chemical Engineering, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  19. Thermal decomposition and combustion chemistry of cellulosic biomass

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  20. Oscillatory thermal instability and the Bhopal disaster

    Article • Process Safety and Environmental Protection, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  21. THERMAL RELAXATION OSCILLATIONS IN LIQUID ORGANIC PEROXIDES

    Article • International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion, January 2011, Begell House

    Professor Rowena Ball

  22. Separation of carbon dioxide from flue emissions using Endex principles

    Article • Fuel, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  23. High confinement at low power input in magnetic fusion plasmas: analysis of trade-offs using stability theory

    Article • December 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  24. Combustion of Biomass as a Global Carbon Sink

    Article • The Open Thermodynamics Journal, January 2009, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Rowena Ball

  25. Stability Analysis of Time Stepping for Prolonged Plasma Fluid Simulations

    Article • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, January 2009, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  26. Bifurcation in electrostatic resistive drift wave turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, October 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rowena Ball

  27. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, STABILITY, AND CHAOS

    Article • June 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Rowena Ball

  28. DISTILLED TURBULENCE: A REDUCED MODEL FOR CONFINEMENT TRANSITIONS IN MAGNETIC FUSION PLASMAS

    Article • June 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Rowena Ball

  29. NONLINEAR SIMULATION OF DRIFT WAVE TURBULENCE

    Article • June 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Rowena Ball

  30. Suppression of turbulence at low power input in a model for plasma confinement transitions

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rowena Ball

  31. Temperature gradient driven electron transport in NSTX and Tore Supra

    Article • Nuclear Fusion, August 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  32. Feedback processes in cellulose thermal decomposition: implications for fire-retarding strategies and treatments

    Article • Combustion Theory and Modelling, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rowena Ball

  33. Turbulent edge structure formation in complex configurations

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rowena Ball

  34. Metamorphosis of plasma turbulence–shear-flow dynamics through a transcritical bifurcation

    Article • December 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  35. Understanding critical behaviour through visualization: A walk around the pitchfork

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Rowena Ball

  36. Bistability and hysteresis in self-assembling micelle systems: phenomenology and deterministic dynamics

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, October 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Rowena Ball

  37. Strong “Quantum” Chaos in the Global Ballooning Mode Spectrum of Three-Dimensional Plasmas

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  38. Thermal stabilization of chemical reactors II. Bifurcation analysis of the Endex CSTR

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, December 1999, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  39. Thermokinetic models for simultaneous reactions: A comparative study

    Article • Combustion Theory and Modelling, September 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rowena Ball

  40. The origins and limits of thermal steady-state multiplicity in the continuous stirred tank reactor

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 1999, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  41. Thermal stabilization of chemical reactors. I The mathematical description of the Endex reactor

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 1999, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Rowena Ball

  42. The role of char-forming processes in the thermal decomposition of cellulose

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Rowena Ball

  43. An electrochemical and spectrophotometric study of some charge-transfer complexes involving drug molecules in acetonitrile

    Article • Electroanalysis, January 1996, Wiley

    Professor Rowena Ball

  44. Transient Thermal Behavior of the Hydration of 2,3-Epoxy-1-propanol in a Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, November 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Rowena Ball

  45. Electrochemical Study of Amiodarone Charge-Transfer Complexes

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, April 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Rowena Ball