Lecture on “Differentiable Embedded Boundary Method for Efficient Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization”
Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering and the inaugural James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, and Director of the Stanford-King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He currently serves on the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable. From 2007 to 2018, he served as the Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at Stanford University; and from 2015 to 2019, he served on the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), a Member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences, a recipient of a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, a recipient of a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, a recipient of a Docteur Honoris Causa from Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts et Metiers, a designated ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the Institute for Science Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge, and a Fellow of six professional societies: SIAM, ASME, IACM, WIF, USACM and AIAA. 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 the recipient of several other professional and academic distinctions.
Professor Farhat and his research group at Stanford University develop mathematical models, advanced computational algorithms, and high-performance software for the design and analysis of complex systems in aerospace, automotive, marine, mechanical, and naval engineering. They contribute major advances to Simulation-Based Engineering Science. Current engineering foci in research are on the nonlinear aeroelasticity and flight dynamics of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with flexible flapping wings and N+3 aircraft with high aspect ratio wings, layout optimization and additive manufacturing of wing structures, supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerators for Mars landing, and model predictive control. Current theoretical and computational emphases in research are on high-performance, multi-scale modeling for the high-fidelity analysis of multi-physics problems, high-order embedded boundary methods, uncertainty quantification, probabilistic machine learning, efficient model-order reduction for time-critical applications such as design and active control, and digital twins.
Professor Farhat is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.
He also serves on the editorial boards of ten other international scientific journals. He has been an AGARD lecturer on aeroelasticity and computational mechanics at several distinguished European institutions, and a plenary speaker at numerous international scientific meetings. He is the author of over 650 refereed publications.
Lecture on “Airbus – Pioneering Sustainable Aerospace”
Antonio graduated with a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Lisbon Technical University (IST) and Aerospace Vehicle Design from Cranfield University.
He joined Airbus in 1998 as an Aerodynamics Engineer at Airbus UK in Bristol, working on the preliminary wing design for the A380 and A400M programmes. He then moved to the Marketing department, based in Toulouse, France, working on sales campaigns to airlines in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Middle East.
In 2005 he was appointed Marketing Director for the Middle East sales unit, managing all the marketing activities for this region. Subsequently, he joined the Strategy department working on future aircraft developments, bringing several developments to light such as the A320neo.
Currently he is the Vice-President of Single Aisle Marketing, responsible for marketing the A220 and A320 aircraft Families.
Lecture on “Aeroelastic Multidisciplinary Optimization: Enhancing Aircraft Performance and Safety through Numerical Tools and Experimental Validation”
Sergio Ricci is a Full Professor at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano. He has been Principal Investigator for the more than 12 European funded research projects (EU-FP7, EU-FP6, EU-FP5) of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, with emphasis to projects GLAMOUR – Gust Load Alleviation techniques assessment on wind tUnnel MOdel of advanced Regional aircraft (2014-2016), NOVEMOR – NOVel AIR VEhicle configurations: from fluttering wings to MORphing flight (2011-2014), SARISTU – Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (2011-2015), AWAHL – Advanced Wing And High-Lift Design (2011-2012), FFAST – Future Fast Aeroelastic Simulation Technologies (2010-2013), SMORPH – Smart Aircraft Morphing Technologies (2007-2009), SimSAC – Simulating Aircraft Stability And Control Characteristics for Use in Conceptual Design (2008-2011), 3AS – Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Structures (2005-2007).
Prof. Ricci is the Founder and Editorial Manager of open access International Journal of Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (www.asdjournal.org). He also serves as reviewer for many international scientific journals, such as Aeronautical Journal, Aerospace Science and Technology, AIAA Journal, Journal of Aircraft, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, and Statistics and Computing.
He is a Member of the International Forum of Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity (IFASD) Committee, a Member of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) Committee, a Member of the ACARE Italy Committee, a Member of Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop (AeP) and a Member of RTO AVT 173 panel on Virtual Prototyping Using Advanced MDO. He is also a member of three professional societies: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA). He has been part of the Scientific committees of several international conferences, such as the International Forum of Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity (IFASD), the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) and ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences. He has given many invited lectures in Europe and USA on morphing aircraft and conceptual design tools for fast structural sizing and aeroelastic analysis and optimization.
Prof. Ricci leads the AeroStructures Design Lab (ASDL), specializing in the development of multi-fidelity analysis and design methods to enable fast and efficient generation of aero-structural models for new, environmentally friendly aerospace systems. The availability of a structural model since the beginning of design loop, i.e. at the conceptual design level, allows the designer to immediately evaluate the potential impacts from aeroelasticity on the definition of global aircraft design parameters, as well as the possible benefits from new materials and technology like morphing, in terms of global performances and weight saving. Current topics of research interest include: Automatic generation of low-medium fidelity aero-structural models; Fast structural sizing, aeroelastic analysis and optimization; Multi-objective topological optimization of compliant structures for morphing application; and Active aeroelastic control, including wind tunnel validation.
Lecture on “Building Blocks Towards Advanced Thermoplastic Composites for Sustainable Aviation: Integration of Material, Process and Joining, Design, Validation, and Monitoring“
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yildiz is the Vice President for Research and Development at Sabanci University. He completed his undergraduate education in 1996 with the first rank in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Yıldız Technical University and received his MSc. degree also from the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department at Istanbul Technical University in 2000. Between 1996-2000, he worked in two different companies as an R&D engineer and a project manager in the fields of welding and non-destructive testing. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada in the fields of computational fluid dynamics and semiconductor single crystal growth and then worked as a research associate and lecturer in the same department until 2007.
In 2007, he joined Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering Natural Sciences as a faculty member in Materials Science and Engineering Program and since 2013, has been leading the effort of establishing Sabanci University-Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center and its industrial leg, Composite Technologies Center of Excellence with Kordsa. He sits in the R&D advisory board of Kastamonu Entegre. He contributed to the establishment of Manufacturing Engineering graduate program at Sabanci University.
Dr. Yildiz’s areas of expertise include advanced composite materials, nanocomposites, structural health monitoring and computational mechanics. He published more than 85 SCI indexed high impact factor journals, 8 book chapters, prepared and presented over 135 conference papers and graduated more than 28 MSc. and Ph.D. students.