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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford working in the Prakash Lab. Previously, I did my Ph.D. in the Physics department at UC Berkeley under Professor Edgar Knobloch working at the intersection of nonlinear dynamics, elasticity, and biophysics.
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Dynamics and interactions of particles in a thermophoretic trap
Published in SPIE, 2017
We consider dynamics and interactions of particles levitated and trapped by the thermophoretic force in a vacuum cell.
Recommended citation: Foster, Benjamin et al. (2017). "Dynamics and interactions of particles in a thermophoretic trap." Proc. SPIE 10347. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07968
Pressure-driven wrinkling of soft inner-lined tubes
Published in New Journal of Physics, 2022
A simple equation modelling an inextensible elastic lining of an inner-lined tube subject to an imposed pressure difference is derived from a consideration of the idealised elastic properties of the lining and the pressure and soft-substrate forces.
Recommended citation: Benjamin Foster et al 2022 New J. Phys. 24 013026 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ac45cd
Universal wrinkling of supported elastic rings
Published in Physical Review Letters, 2022
An exactly solvable family of models describing the wrinkling of substrate-supported inextensible elastic rings under compression is identified.
Recommended citation: Benjamin Foster, Nicolás Verschueren, Edgar Knobloch, and Leonardo Gordillo Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 , 164301. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.164301
Elastic fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell
Published in Physical Review E, 2023
We consider the steady-state fingering instability of an elastic membrane separating two fluids of different density under external pressure in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell.
Recommended citation: Benjamin Foster and Edgar Knobloch. Phys. Rev. E. 107 , 065104. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.065104
Collisions of localized patterns in a nonvariational Swift-Hohenberg equation
Published in Physical Review E, 2023
The cubic-quintic Swift-Hohenberg equation (SH35) has been proposed as an order parameter description of several convective systems with reflection symmetry in the layer midplane, including binary fluid convection. We use numerical continuation, together with extensive direct numerical simulations (DNSs), to study SH35 with an additional nonvariational quadratic term to model the effects of breaking the midplane reflection symmetry.
Recommended citation: Mathi Raja, Adrian van Kan, Benjamin Foster, and Edgar Knobloch. Phys. Rev. E. 107 , 064214. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064214
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Courses Taken
Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley, Physics, 2018
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Courses Taught
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Physics, 2018
I have been a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley for 9 semesters and am a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. This page provides a list of the courses I have been a Graduate Student Instructor for.