August 4, 2012

Charbel Farhat Wins International Association for Computational Mechanics Award

Aeronautics and Astronautics department chair has made lasting contributions to aeroelasticity, computational fluid dynamics on moving grids, computational acoustics, computational mechanics and high-performance computing.By Stanford Engineering  Charbel Farhat, the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures and the Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has received the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) Award in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of computational mechanics.

Farhat has received numerous academic distinctions and awards – including several other IACM awards – for his lasting contributions to aeroelasticity, computational fluid dynamics on moving grids, computational acoustics, computational mechanics and high-performance computing. He was a pioneer of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method which was incorporated in several finite element production and commercial codes in the United States and Europe. His landmark works on the Discrete Geometric Conservation Law have contributed to a renaissance of nonlinear computational aeroelasticity.

Farhat’s current research interests are in computational sciences for the design and analysis of complex systems in aerospace, mechanical, and naval engineering.

The International Association for Computational Mechanics is an international group of scholars and practitioners and focused on promoting advances in computational mechanics.

http://engineering.stanford.edu/profile/cfarhat

(Submitted by Najib Khouri-Haddad)