Dr.-Ing. Philipp Farah

Teaching

Research interests

Research project

Articles in Peer-Reviewed International Journals

  • Farah, P., Vuong, A.T., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2016): A robust and efficient moving grid approach to fluid-structure Interaction based on a volumetric coupling scheme, in preparation
  • Fang, R., Farah, P., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2016): A monolithic coupling approach for electrochemistry problems with non-conforming grids, in preparation
  • Farah, P., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2016): A computational contact formulation for non-smooth geometries based on dual mortar methods, in preparation
  • Farah, P., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2016): An implicit finite wear contact formulation based on dual mortar methods, accepted for publication
  • Farah, P., Vuong, A.T., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2015): Volumetric coupling for multiphysics on non-matching meshes, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, accepted for publication
  • Farah, P., Gitterle, M., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2015): Computational Wear and Contact Modeling for Fretting Analysis with Isogeometric Dual Mortar Methods, Journal of Key Engineering Materials - Wear and Contact Mechanics II, 681:1-18
  • Seitz, A., Farah, P., Kremheller, J., Wohlmuth, B.I., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2015): Isogeometric dual mortar methods for computational contact mechanics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 301:259-280
  • Farah, P., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2014): Segment-based vs. element-based integration for mortar methods in computational contact mechanics, Computational Mechanics, 55:209-228

International Conference Contributions

  • Farah, P., Wall, W.A., Popp, A., (2016): Towards an implicit finite wear formulation for non-smooth contact geometries, 8th Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS2016), Warsaw, Poland, May 11-13, 2016
  • Popp, A., Farah, P., Wiesner, T. (2015): Mortar Methods for Computational Contact Mechanics, 4th International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM15), Hannover, Germany, May 27-29, 2015
  • Wall, W.A., Ager, C., Wirtz, A., Farah, P., Vuong, A.-T., Schott, B., Popp, A. (2015): Novel computational methods and modelling aspects for fluid-structure contact interaction problems, VI International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Venice, Italy, May 18-20, 2015 
  • Farah, P., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2015): An implicit finite wear contact formulation based on dual mortar methods, European Mechanics Society - Colloquium 575: Contact Mechanics and Coupled Problems in Surface Phenomena, Lucca, Italy, March 30 - April 2, 2015
  • Popp, A., Farah, P., Wiesner, T., Wall, W.A. (2014): Efficient parallel solution methods for mortar finite element discretizations in computational contact mechanics, Abstract at the 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM2014), Barcelona, Spain, July 21-25, 2014
  • Farah, P., Popp, A., Wall, W.A (2014): An implicit ALE formulation for finite wear contact based on dual mortar methods, 85th  Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), Erlangen, Germany, March 10-14, 2014
  • Farah, P., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2013): Comparison of segment-based and element-based integration for mortar methods in computational contact mechanics, 5th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, September 30 - Oktober 2, 2013
  • Popp, A., Farah, P., Seitz, A., Wall, W.A. (2013): Improved robustness and efficiency of mortar-based finite element discretizations for nonlinear contact problems, Abstract at the 3rd International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM13), Lecce, Italy, July 10-12, 2013

Supervised Student Projects, Theses

  • The Hu-Washizu approach for nonlinear finite elements based on dual shape functions for nearly incompressible elasticity, Anton Shu, Term Paper, 2017
  • Thermo-structure-contact-wear interaction with finite shape changes, Sebastian Pröll, Term Paper, 2016
  • Construction of locally linear dual shape functions for mortar contact with second order interpolation, Johannes Herb, Term Paper, 2016
  • A frame indifferent penalty approach for frictional mortar contact, Theo Gilch, Term Paper, 2016
  • Thermo-mechanical mortar contact formulation for non-matching volume and interface meshes including plasticity, Christopher Jelich, Master Thesis, 2016
  • Mixed finite element approach based on dual shape functions for nearly incompressible elasticity, Raphael Gebhart, Bachelor Thesis, 2016
  • Monolithic interface coupling for electrochemistry problems based on mortar approaches, Boris Link, Bachelor Thesis, 2015
  • Coupling methods for an overlapping domain decomposition using lagrange multipliers, Lukas Scheucher, Bachelor Thesis, 2015
  • Contact surface smoothing with additional interface discretizations, Jasper Rieser, Term Paper, 2015
  • Closest point projection for 2D mortar contact formulations, Josef Winter, Bachelor Thesis, 2014
  • Isogeometric mortar contact formulations in 2D, Johannes Kremheller, Bachelor Thesis, 2014
  • Cubic Hermite surface smoothing for 2D mortar contact, Christopher Müller, Term Paper, 2013

Myself

  • since 2013 Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (Lehrstuhl für Numerische Mechanik), TUM, Germany
  • 2012 Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, TUM, Germany