By Associate Professor Robert Niven

Books

Dewar RC; Lineweaver C; Niven RK; Regenauer-Lieb K, 2013, Beyond the Second Law: Entropy Production and Non-Equilibrium Systems, Dewar RC; Lineweaver C; Niven RK; Regenauer-Lieb K, (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Second-Law-Non-equilibrium-Understanding/dp/3642401538/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429840115&sr=1-1

Niven RK, 2006, Workshop on Maximum Entropy Analysis (A Series of Tutorials on Concepts and Applications), Original, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra ACT

Niven RK; Burgess JS; Harrowfield DL; Khalili N; Chattopadhyay G, 2005, Preliminary Soil Contamination Investigation, `Mirror Peninsula`, Larsemann Hills, East Antartica. I: Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (Diesel Range Organics), 1, Australian Defence Force Academy- School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Canberra, ACT

Niven RK, 2005, Towards the Information Theoretic Paradigm of Contaminant Transport Modelling, 1, ADFA, Canberra, ACT

Book Chapters

Niven RK; Ozawa H, 2016, 'Entropy production extremum principles', in Singh V (ed.), Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, New York, pp. 32-1 - 32-7

Dewar RC; Lineweaver CH; Niven RK; Regenauer-Lieb K, 2014, 'Beyond the Second Law: An Overview', in Understanding Complex Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 3 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40154-1_1

Niven RK; Noack BR, 2013, 'Control volume analysis, entropy balance and the entropy production in flow systems', in Dewar RC; Lineweaver C; Niven RK; Regenauer-Lieb K (ed.), Beyond the Second Law: Entropy Production and Non-Equilibrium Systems, pp. 129 - 162

Niven RK; Andresen B, 2009, 'Jaynes' maximum entropy principle, Riemannian metrics and generalised least action bound', in Dewar RL; Detering F (ed.), Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems, Proc. 22nd Canberra International Physics Summer School, The Australian National University, Canberra, 8-19 December 2008, edn. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems, Vol. 9, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, pp. 283 - 318, http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7340.html

Niven RK, 2003, 'In Situ fluidization for permeable reactive barrier installation and maintenance', in Henry SM; Warner SD (ed.), Chlorinated Solvent and DNAPL Remediation, Innovative Strategies for Subsurface Cleanup, edn. Original, American Chemical Society, Washington DC, pp. 217 - 235

Niven RK, 2002, 'In Situ Fluidization for Permeable Reactive Barrier Installation and Maintenance', in Hering J; Schnoor JL (ed.), 220th ACS National Meeting Washington DC, edn. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, pp. 217 - 235, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000181756800015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Journal articles

Morrison AL; Strezov V; Niven RK; Taylor MP; Wilson SP; Wang J; Burns DJ; Murphy PJC, 2023, 'Impact of Salinity and Temperature on Removal of PFAS Species from Water by Aeration in the Absence of Additional Surfactants: A Novel Application of Green Chemistry Using Adsorptive Bubble Fractionation', Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 62, pp. 5635 - 5645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c00150

Niven RK, 2023, 'Dimensionless Groups by Entropic Similarity: I — Diffusion, Chemical Reaction and Dispersion Processes', Entropy, 25, pp. 617 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25040617

Wang J; Niven RK; Morrison A; Wilson SP; Strezov V; Taylor MP, 2023, 'Kinetic model of PFAS removal by semi-batch foam fractionation and validation by experimental data for K-PFOS', Science of the Total Environment, 865, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161145

Taghavi N; Niven RK; Kramer M; Paull DJ, 2023, 'Comparison of DRASTIC and DRASTICL groundwater vulnerability assessments of the Burdekin Basin, Queensland, Australia', Science of the Total Environment, 858, pp. 159945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159945

Niven RK, 2022, 'A Hierarchy of Probability, Fluid and Generalized Densities for the Eulerian Velocivolumetric Description of Fluid Flow, for New Families of Conservation Laws', Entropy, 24, pp. 1493 - 1493, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24101493

Taghavi N; Niven RK; Paull DJ; Kramer M, 2022, 'Groundwater vulnerability assessment: A review including new statistical and hybrid methods', Science of the Total Environment, 822, pp. 153486 - 153486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153486

Niven RK, 2021, 'Invariance properties of the entropy production, and the entropic pairing of inertial frames of reference by shear-flow systems', Entropy, 23, pp. 1515 - 1515, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23111515

Wang J; Niven RK, 2021, 'Unification of surface tension isotherms of PFOA or GenX salts in electrolyte solutions by mean ionic activity', Chemosphere, 280, pp. 130715 - 130715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130715

Niven RK; Abel M; Schlegel M; Waldrip SH, 2019, 'Maximum entropy analysis of flow networks: Theoretical foundation and applications', Entropy, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21080776

Niven RK; Cordier L; Kaiser E; Schlegel M; Noack BR, 2018, 'Rethinking the Reynolds Transport Theorem, Liouville Equation, and Perron-Frobenius and Koopman Operators', Rethinking the Reynolds Transport Theorem, Liouville Equation, and Perron-Frobenius and Koopman Operators: Spatial and Generalized Parametric Forms, http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06022v5

Oberst SM; Niven RK; Lester DR; Ord A; Hobbs B; Hoffmann N, 2018, 'Detection of unstable periodic orbits in mineralising geological systems', Chaos, 28, pp. 085711 - 085721, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5024134

Abdelraouf YA; Niven RK, 2018, 'Effect of water and solid activities at high pressure on supercritical CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers', Chemical Geology, 476, pp. 11 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.10.019

Gout J; Quade M; Shafi K; Niven RK; Abel M, 2018, 'Synchronization control of oscillator networks using symbolic regression', Nonlinear Dynamics, 91, pp. 1001 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11071-017-3925-z

Waldrip SH; Niven RK; Abel M; Schlegel M, 2018, 'Reduced-parameter method for maximum entropy analysis of hydraulic pipe flow networks', Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001379

Waldrip SH; Niven RK, 2017, 'Comparison between Bayesian and maximum entropy analyses of flow networks', Entropy, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e19020058

Waldrip SH; Niven RK; Abel M; Schlegel M, 2016, 'Maximum entropy analysis of hydraulic pipe flow networks', Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001126

Quade M; Abel M; Shafi K; Niven RK; Noack BR, 2016, 'Prediction of dynamical systems by symbolic regression', Physical Review E, 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.012214

Waldrip SH; Niven RK, 2016, 'Maximum entropy derivation of Quasi-Newton Methods', SIAM Journal on Optimization, 26, pp. 2495 - 2511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/15M1027668

Kaiser E; Noack BR; Cordier L; Spohn A; Segond M; Abel M; Daviller G; Östh J; Krajnović S; Niven RK, 2014, 'Cluster-based reduced-order modelling of a mixing layer', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 754, pp. 365 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2014.355

Niven RK; Noack BR, 2014, 'Discussion of Di Vita, A., On information thermodynamics and scale invariance in fluid dynamics, Journal of Thermodynamics & Catalysis 3: e108 (2012)', Discussion of Di Vita, A., On information thermodynamics and scale invariance in fluid dynamics, Journal of Thermodynamics & Catalysis 3: e108 (2012), http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4087v1

Cordier L; Noack BR; Tissot G; Lehnasch G; Delville J; Balajewicz M; Daviller G; Niven RK, 2013, 'Identification strategies for model-based control Topics in Flow Control. Guest editors J.P. Bonnet and L. Cattafesta', Experiments in Fluids, 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-013-1580-9

Noack BR; Niven RK, 2013, 'A hierarchy of maximum entropy closures for Galerkin systems of incompressible flows', Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 65, pp. 1558 - 1574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2013.02.016

Singh K; Niven RK, 2013, 'Non-aqueous phase liquid spills in freezing and thawing soils: critical analysis of pore-scale processes', Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology,, 43, pp. 551 - 597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2011.604264

Cordier L; Noack BR; Tissot G; Lehnasch G; Delville J; Daviller G; Balajewicz M; Niven RK, 2013, 'Identification strategies for model-based control', Experiments in Fluids, 54, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-013-1580-9

Noack BR; Niven RK, 2012, 'Maximum-entropy closure for a Galerkin model of an incompressible periodic wake', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 700, pp. 187 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.125

Niven RK, 2012, 'Maximum-entropy weighting of multiple earth climate models', Climate Dynamics, 39, pp. 755 - 765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1163-5

Singh K; Niven RK; Senden TJ; Turner ML; Sheppard A; Middleton J; Knackstedt MA, 2011, 'Remobilization of residual non-aqueous phase liquid in porous media by freeze - Thaw cycles', Environmental Science and Technology, 45, pp. 3473 - 3478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es200151g

Niven RK, 2010, 'Minimisation of a free-energy-like potential for non-equilibrium systems at steady state', Philosophical Transactions B, 365, pp. 1323 - 1331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0296

Niven RK, 2010, 'Simultaneous extrema in the entropy production for steady-state fluid flow in parallel pipes', Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 35, pp. 347 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/JNETDY.2010.022

Grendar M; Niven RK, 2010, 'The Polya information divergence', Information Sciences, 180, pp. 4189 - 4194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2010.06.031

Niven RK, 2009, 'Combinatorial entropies and statistics', European Physical Journal B, 70, pp. 49 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00168-5

Niven RK; Grendar M, 2009, 'Generalized classical, quantum and intermediate statistics and the Polya urn model', Physics Letters, Section A, 373, pp. 621 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2008.12.025

Niven RK, 2009, 'Non-asymptotic thermodynamic ensembles', Europhysics Letters, 86, pp. 20010-p1 - 20010-p6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/20010

Niven RK, 2009, 'Steady state of a dissipative flow-controlled system and the maximum entropy production principle', Physical Review E, 80, pp. 021113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021113

Niven RK; Suyari H, 2009, 'The q-gamma and (q,q)-polygamma functions of Tsallis statistics', Physica A - Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 388, pp. 4045 - 4060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.018

Niven RK; Grendar M, 2008, 'Generalized Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac and Acharya-Swamy Statistics and the Polya Urn Model', Generalized Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac and Acharya-Swamy Statistics and the Polya Urn Model, http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2102v1

Niven RK; Suyari H, 2008, 'Combinatorial basis and non-asymptotic form of the Tsallis entropy function', European Physical Journal B, 61, pp. 75 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00038-8

Niven RK, 2008, 'Comment on ``A fiber optic Raman sensor for hydrocarbon detection`` by Khijwania et al. [Sens. Actuators B 125 (2007) 563-568]', Sensors and Actuators B - Chemical, 130, pp. 575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2007.09.089

Niven RK; Singh K, 2008, 'Mobilization and rupture of LNAPL ganglia during freeze-thaw: Two-dimensional cell experiments', Environmental Science and Technology, 42, pp. 5467 - 5472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es702442j

Niven RK, 2007, 'Comment on “A fiber optic Raman sensor for hydrocarbon detection” by Khijwania et al. [Sens. Actuators B 125 (2007) 563–568]', Environmental Science and Technology

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