Wagdi George Habashi

Graduate Applicants

Are you interested in graduate studies at the CFD Lab? Then please read this and this before writing to us.

About the NSERC-BBC Industrial Chair...

This NSERC Industrial Research Chair, which has been renewed for a second 5-year term in October 2008, groups 3 aerospace giants, Bombardier Aerospace, Bell Helicopter and CAE (hence BBC) around research at the CFD Lab. The current Chair’s mandate ought to lead to more advanced ice protection systems, enhanced aviation safety during in-flight icing encounters, and faster certification through a wider virtual exploration of the combined flight and icing envelopes than is possible by only testing. Toward that end, the CFD Lab is developing large-scale high-accuracy CFD, advanced reduced order models, and a wide variety of optimization techniques for ice protection systems. Applied mathematics + Computer science + Physical modeling combined to solve important engineering problems: that is the CFD Lab.

Professor W.G. Habashi, FRSC Chairholder, CFD Lab Director

Prof. Wagdi G. Habashi, known internationally in the field of CFD, has continuously developed novel simulation techniques and applied them in industrial settings, initially within the jet engine community in Canada and now in aerospace companies worldwide.

Professor Habashi is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is the winner of the 2009 Killam Prize for Engineering, the most prestigious and highest monetary science prize in Canada.

Professor Siva Nadarajah of the McGill CFD Lab, well known in the area of Aerodynamic Optimization, also participates in the activities of the Chair.

Graduate students gain from the well-funded research and the direct interest of the industrial partners, and have traditionally contributed to algorithmic advances for viscous compressible turbulent CFD, in a framework favoring the early embedding of these approaches in industry.

Graduate Positions 2008
[JAB_CHAIR_GRAD_POSITIONS_08.pdf - PDF - 3.06 MB]