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jfoster@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-6972
Office Location: CPE 3.108
John Foster
Associate Professor
George H. Fancher Professorship in Petroleum Engineering
Department Research Areas:
Computational Engineering
Solids, Structures and Materials
Education: Ph.D., Purdue University University
Research Interests:
- Computational Mechanics
- Fracture Mechanics
- Scientific Machine Learning
Before joining the UT PGE faculty in August of 2014, Dr. Foster was most recently a faculty member at UTSA and prior to that was a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories where he worked for seven years. His research interests are in experimental and computational geomechanics and multi-scale modeling with applications to well completions, lost circulation, hydraulic fracturing, and anomalous flow in porous media. Additionally, he has interest in fundamental theoretical advancement of the peridynamic theory of solid mechanics.
