Research Interests:

Application Technology - how particles and droplets are transported and dispersed by atmospheric turbulence and deposited on plant surfaces.

Education:

B.S. - 1957 - Michigan State University (Agricultural Engineering)
M.S. - 1958 - Michigan State University (Agricultural Engineering)
Ph.D. - 1968 - Michigan State University (Agricultural Engineering)

Recent Publications:

Brazee, R. D., R. D. Fox, D. L. Reichard, and F. R. Hall. 1981. Turbulent jet theory applied to air sprayers.  Transactions of ASAE. 24(2):266-272.

Fox, R. D., R. D. Brazee, and D. L. Reichard. 1985. A model study of the effect of wind on orchard sprayer jets.  Trans. of ASAE 28(1):83-88.

Yang, X., T.H. Short, R.D. Fox, and W.L. Bauerle. 1990. Transpiration, leaf temperature and stomatal resistance of a greenhouse cucumber crop.  Agric. and Forest Meteoro. 51:197-209.

Fox, R.D., R.D. Brazee, D.L. Reichard, and F.R. Hall. 1990. Downwind residue from air spraying of a dwarf apple orchard. Transactions of the ASAE 33(4):1104-1108.

Yang, X., T.H. Short, R.D. Fox, and W.L. Bauerle. 1990. Dynamic modeling of the microclimate of a greenhouse cucumber row-crop. Part II. Validation and simulation.  Transactions of the ASAE 33(5):1710-1716.

Fox, R.D., R.D. Brazee, and A.W. Swank. 1991. A tower mounted calibrator for hot-film anemometers.  Transactions of the ASAE 34(6):2579-2583.

Fox, R.D., D.L. Reichard, and R.D. Brazee. 1992. A video analysis system for measuring droplet motion. Applied Engineering in Agric. 8(2):153-157.

Fox, R.D., R.D. Brazee, S.A. Svensson, and D.L. Reichard. 1992. Air jet velocities from a cross-flow fan sprayer. Transactions of ASAE 35(5): 1381-1384.

Fox, R.D., D.L. Reichard, R.D. Brazee, C.R. Krause, and F.R. Hall. 1993. Downwind residues from spraying a semi-dwarf apple orchard. Transactions of ASAE 36(2): 333-340.

Fox, R.D., F.R. Hall, D.L. Reichard, R.D. Brazee, and H.R. Krueger. 1993. Pesticide tracers for measuring orchard spray drift.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 9(6): 501-506.

Zhu, H., D.L. Reichard, R.D. Fox, R.D. Brazee, and H.E. Ozkan. 1994. Simulation of drift of discrete sizes of water droplets from field sprayers. Transaction of ASAE. 37(5):1401-1407.

Zhu, H., D.L. Reichard, R.D. Fox, H.E. Ozkan, and  R.D. Brazee. 1995. Driftsim, a program to estimate drift distances of spray droplets from field sprayers. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 11(3):365-369.

Hall, F.R. and R.D. Fox. 1996. The reduction of pesticide drift. In Pesticide Formulation and Adjuvant Technology. C.L.Foy and D.W. Prichard, Eds. pp 209-239. Chemical Rubber Company, Boca Raton, Fl.

Fox, R.D., R.W. Dexter, H. Zhu, D.L. Reichard, and R.D. Brazee. 1996. Spray droplet size and extensional viscosity of sheared polymer solutions. ILASS Americas 9th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.  May, 1996, San Francisco, CA. 215-219

Zhu, H., R.D.Fox, H.E. Ozkan, R.D. Brazee, and R.C. Derksen. 1998. A system to determine lag time and mixture uniformity for inline injection sprayers. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 14(2):103-110.

Zhu, H., H.E. Ozkan, R.D. Fox, R.D. Brazee, and R.C. Derksen. 1998. Mixture uniformity in supply lines and spray patterns of a laboratory injection sprayer.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 14(3):223-230.

Zhu, H., R.D. Fox, H.E. Ozkan, R.D. Brazee, and R.C. Derksen. 1998. Reducing time delay for injection sprayers.  Transactions of ASAE. 41(3):525-530.