Charbel Farhat
| Charbel Farhat | |
|---|---|
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| Residence |
 California
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields |
Aerospace Engineering Computational Mechanics High Performance Computing Underwater Acoustics |
| Institutions |
Stanford University CU-Boulder |
| 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 |
| Notable 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 |
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 Bureau of Industry and Security's Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC) at the United States Department of Commerce, on the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), and on the technical assessment boards of several national and international research councils and foundations.
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, 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.
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. Then, he 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.
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