Charbel Farhat

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Flow Physics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering
ICME (Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering) and Aeronautics and Astronautics (by courtesy)

Phone: 650-723-3840 | Fax: 650-725-3525 | Email: cfarhat@stanford.edu

Degrees

B.S. Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (1983)

D.E.A. University of Paris VI - Applied Mechanics (1983)

M.S. University of California at Berkeley - Civil Engineering (1984)

M.S. University of California at Berkeley - Computer Science (1986)

PH.D. University of California at Berkeley - Civil Engineering (1987)

Research Interests

Professor Farhat and his research group design, analyze, develop, and validate mathematical models and computational methods for the high-performance simulation of multidisciplinary scientific and engineering problems. They specialize in distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Recent efforts have focused on and continue to address structural dynamics, contact problems, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, underwater acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Current emphasis is on multiscale methods, dynamic data-driven systems, model reduction, near-real-time computing, and large-scale applications in aerospace, mechanical, naval, and marine engineering.

Before joining Stanford University, Professor Farhat held the positions of Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Director of the Center for Aerospace Structures at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships. He is currently Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' Activity Group on Supercomputing. He also serves on the editorial board of six international scientific journals, and on the technical assessment board of several national research councils and foundations. He has been an AGARD lecturer on aeroelasticity and computational mechanics at several distinguished European institutions, and a keynote speaker at numerous international scientific meetings. Professor Farhat is the author of over 200 refereed publications on fluid/structure interaction, computational fluid dynamics on moving grids, computational structural mechanics, computational acoustics, supercomputing, and parallel processing.

Awards/Honors

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 2003)

The Subaru Educator Spotlight (Subaru, 2003)

The Gordon Bell Award (IEEE, 2002)

The Computational Mechanics Award (IACM, 2002)

Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM, 2002)

Co-author paper winner of Robert J. Melosh Competition (Duke University, 2002)

Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF, 2001)

Engineer of the Year (AIAA Rocky Mountain Section, 2001)

The Modeling and Simulation Award (Department of Defense, 2001)

The Computational and Applied Sciences Medal (USACM, 2001)

Fellow of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM, 2001)

Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 1999)

The Young Investigator Award (IACM, 1998)

The R. H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award (USACM, 1997)

The Sidney Fernbach Award (IEEE, 1997)

The Sup'Prize Achievement Award (IBM, 1995)

The ASME Aerospace Structures and Materials Best Paper Award (ASME, 1994)

The Arch T. Colwell Merit Award (SAE, 1993)

Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS, 1993)

The CRAY Research Gigaflop Performance Award (CRAY Research, 1990)

TRW Fellow (TRW Foundation, 1982)

The CRAY Research Award (CRAY Foundation, 1989)

Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1989)

PACER Fellow (Control Data Corporation, 1987)

 

Recent Publications

A Dynamic Variational Multiscale Method for Large Eddy Simulations on Unstructured Meshes, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

 

 

Provably Second-Order Time-Accurate Loosely-Coupled Solution Algorithms for Transient Nonlinear Computational Aeroelasticity, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

FETI-DPH: A Dual-Primal Domain Decomposition Method for Acoustic Scattering, Journal of Computational Acoustics

On a Data-Driven Environment for Multiphysics Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems

Shape Optimization with F-Function Balancing for Reducing the Sonic Boom Initial Shock Pressure Rise, The International Journal of Aeroacoustics

Higher-Order Extensions of a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Mid-Frequency Helmholtz Problems, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

A Discontinuous Galerkin Method with Plane Waves and Lagrange Multipliers for the Solution of Short Wave Exterior Helmholtz Problems on Unstructured Meshes, Journal of Wave Motion

Design and Analysis of Robust ALE Time-Integrators for the Solution of Unsteady Flow Problems on Moving Grids, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

A Numerically Scalable Dual-Primal Substructuring Method for the Solution of Contact Problems - Part I: the Frictionless Case, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

 

 

Projects

Toyota Motor, Inc., Aerodynamic and aeroelastic effects on a class of high-speed vehicles - The Toyota Formula One car

TechnoSoft, Inc., Ship engineering framework for integrated rapid design and multidisciplinary analysis

ONR, High-resolution methods for the solution of direct and inverse acoustic scattering problems

ONR, A collaborative for naval computational mechanics

AFOSR, Methodologies for predicting and testing the effects of combat damage on flight envelopes

NSF, A data-driven environment for multiphysics applications

Sandia, Scalable substructuring methods for linear and nonlinear structural dynamics problems

HPTi, Inc., High-performance computing modernization program - Programming environment and training

AFOSR, High-performance and high-fidelity aeroelastic simulation of fixed wing aircraft with deployable control surfaces

NSF, Computational methods for the solution of three-dimensional inverse acoustic and elastoacoustic scattering problems

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