Farid Abraham

Farid Fadlow Abraham (born May 5, 1937 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is an American physicist .

Abraham studied physics at the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1962. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Chicago and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). From 1966 he was at IBM in Palo Alto. From 1972 he was at the IBM Research Center in San Jose ( IBM Almaden Research Center ). In 2004 he retired from IBM and was then at the LLNL until 2010. He was also the Graham-Perdue Visiting Professor at The University of Georgia.

Abraham dealt with the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, thermodynamics and structure of surfaces and interfaces, melting in two dimensions, dynamics of flexible rigid membranes, non-linear chaotic dynamics of coupled oscillators, dynamics of fractures in ductile and brittle materials (MAAD simulation project, the Continuum mechanics, atomic and electronic structure calculations). Among other things, he investigated the dynamics of the increase in strength during forming (work hardening) with a simulation of over a billion atoms.

He taught computer physics in 1971 (as a consultant professor) at Stanford University and during a sabbatical year 1991/92 at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and in 1994 he was Sandoval Vallarta Professor at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City .

Abraham received several Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and headed its Computer Physics section in 2000/2001. He received a Humboldt Research Award .

In 2004 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his groundbreaking investigations into fracture, two-dimensional melting and the properties of membranes (laudation).

Fonts (selection)

• with William A. Tiller: An Introduction to Computer Simulation in Applied Science. New York: Plenum Press 1972
• Homogeneous Nucleation Theory: The Pretransition Theory of Vapor Condensation, New York: Academic Press 1974
• with JK Lee, JA Barker: Theory and Monte Carlo simulation of physical clusters in the imperfect vapor, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 58, 1973, pp. 3166-3180
• with D. Henderson, JA Barker: The Ornstein-Zernike equation for a fluid in contact with a surface, Molecular Physics, Volume 31, 1976, pp. 1291-1295
• with JA Barker, D. Henderson: Phase diagram of the two-dimensional Lennard-Jones system; Evidence for first-order transitions, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 106, 1981, pp. 226-238
• The phases of two-dimensional matter, their transitions, and solid-state stability: A perspective via computer simulation of simple atomic systems, Physics Reports, Volume 80, 1981, pp. 340–374
• Computational statistical mechanics methodology, applications and supercomputing, Advances in Physics, Volume 35, 1986, pp. 1-111
• with D. Brodbeck, RA Rafey, WE Rudge: Instability dynamics of fracture: A computer simulation, Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 73, 1994, pp. 272-275
• Portrait of a Crack: Rapid Fracture Mechanics Using Parallel Molecular Dynamics, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, 4, 2, 1997
• with V. Bulatov, L. Kubin, B. Devincre, S. Yip: Connecting atomistic and mesoscale simulations of crystal plasticity, Nature, Volume 391, 1998, p. 669
• with JQ Broughton, N. Bernstein, E. Kaxiras: Spanning the length scales in dynamic simulation, Computers in Physics, Volume 12, 1998, pp. 538-546
• with JQ Broughton, N. Bernstein, E. Kaxiras: Concurrent coupling of length scales: methodology and application, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 60, 1999, p. 2391
• with H. Gao: How fast can cracks propagate?, Physical Review Letters, Volume 84, 2000, pp. 3113-3116
• with others: Dynamically spanning the length scales from the quantum to the continuum, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Volume 11, 2000, p. 1135
• with others: Simulating materials failure by using up to one billion atoms and the world's fastest computer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Volume 99, 2002, p. 5777.
• with others: How fast can cracks move? A research adventure in materials failure using millions of atoms and big computers, Advances In Physics, Volume 52, 2003, p. 727
• with MJ Buehler, H. Gao: Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale, Nature, Volume 426, 2003, pp. 141-146
• with JQ Broughton, N. Bernstein, E. Kaxiras: Spanning the continuum to quantum length scales in a dynamic simulation of brittle fracture, Europhysics Letters, Volume 44, 2007, p. 783

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aneesur Rahman Prize