Solid mechanics in biology
Exploration of the role of solid mechanics in biology, from influencing the growth of tumours to controlling the development of vascular networks.
University College London
1851 Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics
benjamin.walker@ucl.ac.uk
Exploration of the role of solid mechanics in biology, from influencing the growth of tumours to controlling the development of vascular networks.
Efficient simulation of elastohydrodynamics in 2D and 3D, exploring the role and regulation of active moments in eukaryotic flagella, in addition to the responses of filaments to flow.
Investigation into the low Reynolds number swimming of flagellates, such as the boundary response of large-bodied Leishmania and the interactions between nearby spermatozoa.
Automated processing and identification of flagella from videomicroscopy, enabling population-level waveform analysis without requiring costly researcher input. Publication and ImageJ code for flagella capture freely available here.
Incorporation of non-uniform body shapes and curvatures into slender-body theories via asymptotic methods, enabling simple and rapid flow field computation and further theoretical study using regularised singularities.