Farid F. Abraham (born May 5, 1937) is an American scientist.

Abraham earned his Bachelor of Science and Ph.D from the University of Arizona in 1959 and 1962, respectively. By pioneering new methods of using computer modelling in research, he has made seminal contributions to science in the fields of fracture mechanics, membrane dynamics and phase transformation behavior of matter. He has authored three textbooks and over 200 papers published in international journals, including three cover articles in Science. He won the Aneesur Rahman prize in computational physics, which is the highest prize given by the American Physical Society.

[edit] Bibliography

• Abraham, Farid. F. et al. (2003) "How fast can cracks move? A research adventure in materials failure using millions of atoms and big computers". Advances In Physics. 52, 727
• Abraham, Farid F. et al. (2002) "Simulating materials failure by using up to one billion atoms and the world’s fastest computer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 99, 5777.
• Abraham, Farid F. et al. (2000) "Dynamically spanning the length scales from the quantum to the continuum". International Journal of Modern Physics. C11 (6), 1135
• Abraham, Farid F. et al. (1998) "Spanning the length scales in dynamic simulation". Computers In Physics. 12, 538
• Abraham, Farid F. (1997) "Portrait of a Crack: Rapid Fracture Mechanics Using Parallel Molecular Dynamics. IEEE Computational Science & Engineering. 4, 2.
• Abraham, Farid F. and Karkar, M. (1991) "Folding and unbinding transitions in tethered membranes." Science 252, 419
• Abraham, Farid F., and Tiller, William A. (1972) An Introduction to Computer Simulation in Applied Science. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-30579-8

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