Mohamed Farhat

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Senior Scientist

mohamed.farhat@epfl.ch +41 21 693 50 86

Citizenship:

EPFL SCI-STI-MF
AU -3 9004 (Aula des Cèdres - sous-sol)
Av. de Cour 33bis
1007 Lausanne

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Fields of expertise

- Cavitation & Multiphase flows 
- Flow Induced Noise & Vibration 
- Fluid-Structure Interaction 
- Flow control
- Flow instabilities in hydro turbines and pumps 
- Condition monitoring of Hydraulic Machines 
- Hemodynamics 
- Advanced Instrumentation in Fluid Dynamics 


Awards

Life Sciences Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics

Preparation of Space Experiments, lntechOpen, London. United Kingdom, 2020

2021

1st Prize Winner of Scientific Image Contest

awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation

2019

EPFL-Rhyming Prize

Best PhD thesis in Fluid Mechanics (Ali Amini)

2020

EPFL-EDME Prize

Prize for the best Best PhD thesis in Mechanics (Outi Supponen)

2018

Edmund Optics Educational Award.

Innovative use of optics in education and research.

2015

APS-DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award

For the video entry “Inner world of a collapsing bubble”

2014

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Mechanical Engineering

Courses

Introduction to turbomachinery

The student obtains an insight to thermal and hydraulic turbomachinery and the different engine types in the field and learns basic rules for the design and analyses.

Aeroelasticity and fluid-structure interaction

Static and dynamic response of coupled fluid-structure systems as a result of extraneously-induced excitation, motion-induced excitation, and fluid-instability-induced excitation.

Cavitation and interface phenomena

Introduction, basic concepts; cavitation bubble collapse; dynamique des cavits; cavitation in vorticalstructures; industrial applications.