Charbel Farhat and his research group design, analyze, develop, verify, and validate whenever possible mathematical models and computational methods for the high-performance simulation of multidisciplinary engineering problems. They specialize in distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Recent efforts have focused on and continue to address structural dynamics, contact problems, CFD on moving grids, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, underwater acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Current emphasis is on aerothermodynamics, some aspects of compressible turbulence modeling, adaptive aeroelastic reduced-order modeling, dynamic data-driven systems, near real-time computing, multiscale approximation methods, imaging, underwater explosions and implosions, the dynamics, aerodynamics, and aeroelasticity of Formula One cars, and various large-scale applications in aerospace, mechanical, marine, and naval engineering.

Charbel Farhat is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor, by courtesy, of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, and Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at Stanford University. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Gordon Bell Award (2002), the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) Computational Mechanics Award (2002), a Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation Award (2001), the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) Medal of Computational and Applied Sciences (2001), the IACM Award in Computational Mechanics for Young Investigators (1998), the USACM R. H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators (1997), the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award (1997), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)Aerospace Structures and Materials Best Paper Award (1994), and the United States Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989). He has over 22 years of research experience in structural mechanics, structural dynamics, fluid/structure interaction, CFD on moving grids, computational acoustics, numerical analysis, and parallel processing. Professor Farhat is Associate Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. He also serves on the editorial boards of eleven other international scientific journals, and on the technical assessment boards of several national research councils and foundations. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003), Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (2002), Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2001), Fellow of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (2001), and Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1999).