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Charbel Farhat

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Charbel Farhat
CitizenshipUnited States, Lebanese Origins
Alma materUC Berkeley
Ecole Centrale Paris
Known forAeroelasticity
CFD on Moving Grids
FETI, FETI-DP
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Model Order Reduction
Parallel Processing
Scientific Machine Learning
AwardsVannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
National Academy of Engineering
Royal Academy of Engineering
Lebanese Academy of Sciences
Ordre des Palmes Academiques
Lifetime Achievement Award
United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
Spirit of St Louis Medal
Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity
Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award
Gordon Bell Prize
Sidney Fernbach Award
Gauss-Newton Medal
JSCES Grand Prize
John von Neumann Medal
Olof B. Widlund Prize
Scientific career
FieldsAerospace Engineering
Computational Mechanics
High Performance Computing
Underwater Acoustics
InstitutionsStanford University
CU-Boulder

Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where from 2008 to 2023, he chaired the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 2022 to 2023, he chaired this department as the inaugural James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also Professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. From 2014 to 2024, he directed at Stanford University the Stanford-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics; from 2017 to 2023, he served on the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable; from 2015 to 2019, he served on the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB); from 2008 to 2018, he served on the United States Bureau of Industry and Security's Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC) at the United States Department of Commerce; and from 2007 to 2018, he served as the Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at Stanford University. He was designated by the US Navy recruiters as a Primary Key-Influencer and flew with the Blue Angels during Fleet Week 2014.

Farhat has received numerous awards and academic distinctions for his lasting contributions to aeroelasticity, CFD on moving grids, computational acoustics, computational mechanics, domain decomposition methods, high performance computing, and model order reduction. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. He is an elected member of three national academies: the National Academy of Engineering; the Royal Academy of Engineering; and the Lebanese Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of: a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense; a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay; a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Centrale de Nantes; and a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers. He is a Fellow of six international professional societies: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the World Innovation Foundation, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the US Association of Computational Mechanics, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is also an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, an Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Physics.

Career

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Farhat began his career at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Director of the Center for Aerospace Structures. In 2004, he moved to Stanford University, where he currently occupies the Vivian Church Hoff Chair of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering; and serves as the Director of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He is the developer of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors. FETI was incorporated in several finite element production and commercial software in the US and Europe. It enabled the Sandia National Laboratories’ structural dynamics code SALINAS to win a Gordon Bell Prize in the special accomplishment category based on innovation.

Farhat also developed the three-field computational framework for coupled nonlinear fluid-structure interaction problems. With his co-workers, he introduced the concept of a Discrete Geometric Conservation Law (DGCL) and established its relationship to the nonlinear stability of CFD schemes on moving grids. This led to the development of the nonlinear aeroelastic software AERO that is used for many applications ranging from the shape sensitivity analysis of Formula 1 cars, to the nonlinear flutter analysis of supersonic business jet concepts.

Research monographs

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  • Charbel Farhat and Francois-Xavier Roux, Implicit Parallel Processing in Structural Mechanics, Computational Mechanics Advances, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 1–124 (1994)
  • Charbel Farhat, Domain Decomposition and Parallel Processing, Postgraduate Studies in Supercomputing, ed. FNRS/NFWO, Universie de Liege, Belgium, 1992.
  • Charbel Farhat, An Introduction to Parallel Scientific Computations, Postgraduate Studies in Supercomputing, ed. FNRS/NFWO, Universite de Liege, Belgium, 1991.

Major awards and honors

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Flying in Blue Angel Hornet

References

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  1. ^ "Spirit of St. Louis medalists". Amse.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-18.
  2. ^ "The JSCES Grand Prize". jsces.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14.
  3. ^ "The IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal)". iacm.info. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24.
  4. ^ "The IACM O.C. Zienkiewicz Award". iacm.info. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24.
  5. ^ "The IACM Computational Mechanics Award". iacm.info. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24.
  6. ^ "The IACM John Argyris Award for Young Scientists". iacm.info. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24.
  7. ^ a b "Academic Palms November 2011". cnam.fr. Archived from the original on 2015-07-14.
  8. ^ a b c "United States Association for Computational Mechanics. Award Recipients". usacm.org. Archived from the original on 2019-11-04.
  9. ^ "Gordon Bell Prize Special Achievement Award". Archived from the original on 2018-11-09.
  10. ^ "Award Abstract #8957322. Presidential Young Investigators Award". nsf.gov.
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