Prof. Isaac Harari The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University                                     [campus map] 69978 Ramat Aviv, ISRAEL +972-3/640-9439 +972-3/640-7617 harari AT eng.tau.ac.il

Education:

• B.S., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (1976).
• M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology (1983).
• Ph.D., Stanford University (1991).

Research Interests:

• Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis.
• Continuum Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Wave Propagation, Fluid-solid Interaction.
• Dynamics, Control.

Current Projects:

• Structural Representations for MEMS and Naval Applications.
• Stabilized Finite Element Methods.
• Inverse Elasticity Problems Arising from Medical Imaging (BSF).
• Stability of Semidiscrete Transient Computation at Small Time Steps.

Professional Activities:

• Past president and a founder of the Israel Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics (IACMM).
• Co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Computational Acoustics on “Enabling methodologies for large-scale computational structural acoustics.”
• Co-editor of a special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering on ``Exterior problems of wave propagation."
• A member of European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ECCAM).
• Co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Computational Acoustics on ``Finite element methods for wave propagation."
• Co-editor of a special issue of Wave Motion on ``New computational methods for wave propagation."
• A member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering.
• A Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
• A member of the Editorial Board of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
• A member of the Editorial Board of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design.
• Co-editor of a special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering on “Absorbing boundary conditions.”
• A member of the Editorial Board of International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics.
• Associate editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
• A member of the General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
• A member of the Scientific Committee of the 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2012).
• A member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the 12th US Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 12).
• Co-editor of a special issue of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design on “Analysis and design of MEMS/NEMS.”
• A member of the Scientific Committee of the III South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics (SEECCM III).

Teaching:

• Engineering Software Tools (0542.2130).
• Energy Methods for Structures (0542.3230).
• Theory of Vibrations (0542.4220).
• Introduction to the Theory of Elasticity (0542.4221).
• Introduction to Finite Elements (0542.4223 ).
• Mathematical Methods in Engineering (0540.5001).
• Variational Methods and Finite Elements I (0540.6408 current semester).
• Variational Methods and Finite Elements II (0540.6411).
• Continuum Mechanics (0543.5337).

Publications

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