Charbel Farhat
| Charbel Farhat | |
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| Residence |
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| Citizenship | United States, Lebanese Origins |
| Alma mater |
UC Berkeley Ecole Centrale Paris |
| Known for |
Aeroelasticity CFD on Moving Grids FETI, FETI-DP Fluid-Structure Interaction Model Order Reduction Parallel Processing |
| Awards |
Lebanese Academy of Sciences Royal Academy of Engineering National Academy of Engineering Ordre des Palmes Academiques Lifetime Achievement Award 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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Aerospace Engineering Computational Mechanics High Performance Computing Underwater Acoustics |
| Institutions |
Stanford University CU-Boulder |
Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he is also Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center, and Director of the King Abdullah City of Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also serves on the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), and on the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable. He has previously served on the technical assessment boards of several national and international research councils and foundations, and on the United States Bureau of Industry and Security's Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC) at the United States Department of Commerce.
Farhat is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. For his lasting contributions to aeroelasticity, CFD on moving grids, computational acoustics, computational mechanics, and high performance computing, he received numerous awards and academic distinctions. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (International Fellow), a Member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences, a Docteur Honoris Causa of Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, a Docteur Honoris Causa of Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and 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 of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, and the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.
Career
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. He then moved to Stanford University where he occupies the Vivian Church Hoff Chair of Engineering, and serves as Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center, and Director of the King Abdullah City of Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He led the development 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
- 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.
Awards and honors
Farhat is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Spirit of St Louis Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, the Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity and the Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Gordon Bell Prize and Sidney Fernbach Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, the Gauss-Newton Medal, IACM Award, Computational Mechanics Award and Computational Mechanics Award for Young Investigators from the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM), the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES), the John von Neumann Medal, Computational and Applied Sciences Award and R. H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award from the United States Association of Computational Mechanics, the Modeling and Simulation Award from the Department of Defense, the IBM Sup’Prize Achievement Award, the CRAY Research Award, and United States Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and the White House.
In 2011, he was knighted by the Prime Minister of France in the Order of Academic Palms and was awarded the Medal of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2016, he was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). In 2017, he was elected to the Lebanese Academy of Sciences and received the title of Docteur Honoris Causa from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes and the Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay. He was also designated by the US Navy recruiters as a Primary Key-Influencer and flew with the Blue Angels during Fleet Week 2014. He was appointed to the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and to the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable.