Richard Treat
Professor Emeritus
B.S., Univ. of California – Los Angeles,
Ph.D., Univ. of California – Riverside, 1967

West Virginia University
Department of Physics
PO Box 6315
Morgantown, WV 26506

Tel: (304)293-3422 ext. 1487
Fax: (304)293-5732
rpt@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU

My present research is on the theory of aerosols. I am studying the formation of particles from the gas phase, growth by condensation and coagulation, evaporation under intense thermal conditions, and particle interaction with radiation. This work has application in combustion, the formation and emission of polluting aerosols, and the transmission of laser radiation in the atmosphere.

In the past I have also worked on the magnetic filtration of fine particles and on the classical and quantum theory of the Yang-Mills field.

Recent Publications

“On the similarity solution of the fragmemtation equation,” R. P. Treat, Journal of Physics A 30, 2519 (1997).
“An exact solution of the Discrete Smoluchowski Equation and Its Correspondence to the Solution of the Continues Equation,” J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. (1989).