Charbel Farhat

Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where from 2008 to 2023, he chaired the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

In 2004, he moved to Stanford University, where he currently occupies the Vivian Church Hoff Chair of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering; and serves as the Director of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He is the developer of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors.

It enabled the Sandia National Laboratories’ structural dynamics code SALINAS to win a Gordon Bell Prize in the special accomplishment category based on innovation.

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.