Charbel Farhat and his Research Group (FRG) develop mathematical models, advanced computational
algorithms, and high-performance software for the design and analysis of complex systems in aerospace, marine, mechanical, and naval
engineering. They contribute major advances to Simulation-Based Engineering Science.
Current engineering foci in research are on the aerodynamics of
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and Formula 1 cars, ballistic fabric for lightweight shields,
nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter jets and High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft, thermal management
of hypersonic vehicles, underwater acoustics and imaging, and underwater implosion. Current theoretical and computational
emphases in research are on high-performance, multi-scale modeling for the high-fidelity analysis of multi-physics
problems, and efficient model order reduction for time-critical applications such as design and active control.
Biosketch
Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures and the Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, and Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center . He currently 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, and on the technical assessment boards of several national research councils and foundations.
Professor Farhat is designated as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the Institute for Science Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company (ISIHighlyCited.com). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of six international societies: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the United States Association of Computational Mechanics,
and the World Innovation Foundation. He was knighted by the Prime Minister of France in the Order of Academic Palms and awarded the Medal of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
He is also the recipient of several other academic distinctions including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Computers & Information in Engineering Division, the Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 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 Gordon Bell Prize and Sidney Fernbach Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, the IACM Award, Computational Mechanics Award and Computational Mechanics Award for Young Investigators from the International 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 the United States Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and the White House.
