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.
• Stabilized Finite Element Methods.
• Inverse Elasticity Problems Arising from Medical Imaging.
• Stability of Semidiscrete Transient Computation at Small Time Steps.
• Embedded Interfaces and Boundaries.

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 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).
• Semi-plenary lecturer at the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2013).
• A member of the Scientific Committee on Computational Applied Mathematics of the joint 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, 5th European Conference on Computational Methods, and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2012).

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).
• Finite Element Analysis I (0540.6408 current semester).
• Variational Methods and Finite Elements II (0540.6411).
• Continuum Mechanics (0543.5337).

Publications

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