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personnel profile

Charbel Farhat

 
Title:Professor; Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures
Department(s):Aeronautics and Astronautics
Affiliation(s):Chair, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Director, Army High-Performance Computing Research Center; Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center
Location:William F. Durand Building, Room 257
Mail Code:4035
Phone:650.723.3840       
Fax:650.725.3525
E-mail: cfarhat@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/frg
Administrator: Grace Fontanilla

Research Statement

Professor Farhat and his research group design, analyze, develop, verify, and validate whenever possible mathematical models and computational methods for the high-performance simulation of multidisciplinary engineering problems. They specialize in distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Recent efforts have focused on and continue to address structural dynamics, contact problems, CFD on moving grids, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, underwater acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Current emphasis is on aerothermodynamics, some aspects of compressible turbulence modeling, adaptive aeroelastic reduced-order modeling, dynamic data-driven systems, near real-time computing, multiscale approximation methods, imaging, underwater explosions and implosions, the dynamics, aerodynamics, and aeroelasticity of Formula One cars, and various large-scale applications in aerospace, mechanical, marine, and naval engineering.

Research Projects
A Physics-Based Predictive Computational Model for the High-Performance Analysis of Implodable Paylo
Development of a Reduced-Order Method for the CFD-Based Aerodynamic Performance Analysis of a Formul
Feasibility Study of a Unified CFD-CSD Computational Formulation, NASA Research Announcement, (2007-
Army High Performance Computing Research Center, US Army Research Laboratory, (2007-2012)
Multidisciplinary Analysis of Hot Aerospace Structures, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, (20
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Degree Discipline Year School
PhD 1987 UC Berkeley
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Workshop Fluid-Structure-Interaction: Theory, Numerics and Applications, Munich, Germany Charbel Farhat
MUSAF Colloquium: Multiphysics and Unsteady Simulations for Aeronautical Flows Charbel Farhat
Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computing, A Symposium in Honor of Olof B. Widlund on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday Charbel Farhat
A Complete Aeroservoelastic Model: Incorporation of Oscillation-Reduction-Control into a High-Order CFD/FEM Fighter Aircraft Model B. Danowsky, P. Thompson, C. Farhat, T. Lieu, C. Harris and J. Lechniak
Tenth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Charbel Farhat
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Academic Honors & Awards

John von Neumann Medal (USACM, 2009)
Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (ISI, 2009)
Co-author paper winner of Robert J. Melosh Medal (2008)
Who's Who in Higher Education Engineering (2006)
Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering (2005)
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 Medal (2002)
Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF, 2001)
Engineer of the Year (AIAA Rocky Mountain Section, 2001)
The 2001 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 1998 International Association of Computational Mechanics Young Investigator Award (IACM, 1998)
The R. H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators (USACM, 1997)
The Sidney Fernbach Award (IEEE, 1997)
The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Award (University of Colorado, 1996)
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)
FNRS Fellowship (Belgian National Science Foundation, 1993)
Research Featured in Yearbook of Science and the Future (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1992)
CRAY Research Gigaflop Performance Award (CRAY Research, 1990)
TRW Fellowship (TRW Foundation, 1989--1992)
CRAY Research Award (CRAY Foundation, 1989)
Presidential Young Investigator Award (National Science Foundation, 1989)
AGARD Lecturer (1988, 1991, 1993, 1995)
PACER Fellowship (Control Data Corporation, 1987--1989)