Charbel Farhat
Charbel Farhat is an American engineering scientist.
Farhat received his engineering diploma in 1983 from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures and further diplomas from the University of Paris VI and 1984 (structural mechanics) and 1986 (electrical engineering and computer science) from the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in civil engineering in 1986. In 1987 he became an assistant professor, an associate professor in 1990 and a professor of aircraft construction in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1996 to 2004 he was director of the Center for Aerospace Structures there.
He has been Professor of Mechanical and Aircraft Engineering (Vivian Church Hoff Professor) at Stanford University since 2004 and Chairman of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department since 2009. He has also been director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center since 2007 and of the King Abdullah City of Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics in Stanford since 2014 .
Farhat and his group develop advanced mathematical models, algorithms and software for high-performance computers (parallel computers) for the design, simulation and analysis of complex systems in aviation, marine, aerospace and mechanical engineering. Examples are beating wings for micro air vehicle , wing with high aspect ratio (Aspect Ratio) for future generations of aircraft (N + 3 project of NASA), deceleration of future Mars landing missions from supersonic speed.
He is the developer of Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting ( FETI ) for the implementation of the Finite Element Method on massive parallel computers . The concept of the Discrete Geometric Conservation Law (DGCL) introduced by him and his colleagues for numerical hydrodynamic calculations on moving grids found its way into various software for non-linear aeroelasticity, for example for Formula 1 cars or the analysis of wing vibrations in studies for business aircraft in the supersonic range.
In 1997 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013), the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lebanese Academy of Sciences (2017). Farhat is an honorary doctor of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and the École Centrale de Nantes and a Knight of the Order of the Palmes Académiques. In 2017 he received the Spirit of St. Louis Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (aircraft division), the Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science. He also received the Gauss-Newton Medal from the IACM. He is one of the highly cited engineering scientists at ISI.
He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
He has been on the US Air Force (SAB) Scientific Advisory Board since 2015.
Fonts (selection)
- A simple and efficient automatic FEM domain decomposer, Computers & Structures, Volume 28, 1988, pp. 579-602
- with FX Roux: A method of finite element tearing and interconnecting and its parallel solution algorithm, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 32, 1991, pp. 1205-1227
- Implicit parallel processing in structural mechanics, Comp. Mech. Advances, Vol. 2, 1994, pp. 1-124
- with S. Piperno, B. Larrouturou: Partitioned procedures for the transient solution of coupled aroelastic problems Part I: Model problem, theory and two-dimensional application, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, Volume 124, 1995, pp. 79-112
- with M. Lesoinne: Geometric conservation laws for flow problems with moving boundaries and deformable meshes, and their impact on aeroelastic computations, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, Volume 134, 1996, pp. 71-90
- with M. Lesoinne, P. Le Tallec: Load and motion transfer algorithms for fluid / structure interaction problems with non-matching discrete interfaces: Momentum and energy conservation, optimal discretization and application to aeroelasticity, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, Volume 157 , 1998, pp. 95-114
- with M. Lesoinne, P. Le Tallec, K. Pierson, D. Rixen: FETI-DP: a dual-primal unified FETI method — part I: A faster alternative to the two-level FETI method, International journal for numerical methods in engineering, Vol. 50, 2001, pp. 1523-1544
- with CA Felippa, KC Park: Partitioned analysis of coupled mechanical systems, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, Volume 190, 2001, pp. 3247-3270
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| SURNAME | Farhat, Charbel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |