Summary
Dr Ado Farsi is a research associate in computational mechanics at Imperial College London, a research fellow at University College London (UCL) and a lead scientific and engineering consultant at Imperial College Consultants.
He is considered a world expert in the field of fracture mechanics and multi-body dynamics. He has been an invited speaker and session organiser at several international research conferences. Dr Farsi’s research spans from rock mechanics, the study of fibre-reinforced concrete tunnels to the optimisation of catalyst supports for the production of hydrogen.
Through his research work over the last four years, he has attracted funding valued at £734,003 to Imperial College London. He has more than nine years of experience in collaborating with industries and government bodies from different engineering sectors such as Petronas, Johnson Matthey and London Underground. He has been training industry research scientists, supervising Master’s students and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students at Imperial College London.
Dr Ado Farsi has been a member of the Royal Society’s RAMP committee (Rapid Assistance in Modelling the COVID Pandemic) that provides the UK government with scientific advice during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also the representative of postdocs and fellows of the Earth Science and Engineering Department at Imperial College London and he is currently a committee member of the Imperial Postdoc and Fellows Enterprise Network.
Collaborators
Robert W. Zimmerman
Nicolas Brantut
John-Paul Latham
Consulting & research
Open for industrial consultancy projects, both privately and through Imperial College Consultants. Dr Farsi has more than seven years of experience in collaborating with industries and government bodies, working in the following areas:
Structural analysis | Fracture mechanics | Solid fragmentation | Rock mechanics | Multi-body system dynamics | Numerical methods and computational mechanics | High performance and parallel computing | Data intensive computation and visualisation | Engineering software development
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Selected Publications
Farsi A, Xiang J, Latham JP, Carlsson M, Stitt EH, Marigo M, Packing simulations of complex-shaped rigid particles using FDEM: An application to catalyst pellets, Powder Technology, 2021
Farsi A, Xiang J, Latham JP, Carlsson M, Stitt EH, Marigo M, Strength and fragmentation behaviour of complex-shaped catalyst pellets: A numerical and experimental study, Chemical Engineering Science, 2020
Farsi A, Bedi A, Latham JP, Simulation of fracture propagation in fibre-reinforced concrete using FEMDEM: An application to tunnel linings, Computational Particle Mechanics, 2019
Farsi A, Pullen AD, Latham JP, Bowen J, Carlsson M, Stitt EH, Marigo M, Full deflection profile calculation and Young’s modulus optimisation for engineered high performance materials, Scientific Reports, 2017
Education
Imperial College London
2013-2017
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Mechanics
Politecnico di Milano
2010-2013
Master of Science (MSc), Structural (Civil) Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
2007-2010
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Building Engineering
Publications
Journals
Farsi A, Xiang J, Latham J-P, et al., 2021, Packing simulations of complex-shaped rigid particles using FDEM: An application to catalyst pellets, Powder Technology, Vol:380, ISSN:0032-5910, Pages:443-461
Farsi A, Bedi A, Latham JP, et al., 2020, Simulation of fracture propagation in fibre-reinforced concrete using FDEM: an application to tunnel linings, Computational Particle Mechanics, Vol:7, ISSN:2196-4378, Pages:961-974
Latham J-P, Xiang J, Farsi A, et al., 2020, A class of particulate problems suited to FDEM requiring accurate simulation of shape effects in packed granular structures, Computational Particle Mechanics, Vol:7, ISSN:2196-4378, Pages:975-986
Farsi A, Xiang J, Latham JP, et al., 2020, Strength and fragmentation behaviour of complex-shaped catalyst pellets: A numerical and experimental study, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol:213, ISSN:0009-2509, Pages:1-18
Conference
Latham J-P, Farsi A, Xiang J, et al., Numerical modelling of the influence of in-situ stress, rock strength and hole-profile geometry on the stability of Radial Water Jet Drill (RJD) boreholes, American Rock Mechanics Association