Farhad Kamarei
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About me
I’m a Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Depatrment. I am doing my Ph.D. under supervison of Prof. Oscar Lopez-Pamies.
I develop mathematical models and computational frameworks for solving partial differential equations, with a focus on applications in mechanics and physics of soft solids.
My Reseach
I am currently developing theoretical and numerical frameworks for the phase-field approach to fracture mechanics, under quasistatic and monotonically increasing loading conditions. My doctoral research, titled "Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Viscoelastic Elastomers: A Complete Phase-Field Theory and Robust Numerical Implementation," presents a comprehensive theory and numerical framework for modeling crack nucleation and propagation in viscoelastic elastomers. This work advances our understanding of fracture behavior for a more general and complex material behavior and provides robust computational tools for predicting fracture mechanisms.
Publications
Here is a list of my recent publications:
- Fracture under body forces: An accessible test and analysis
Kamarei, F., Bueno De Castro, S., Roesler, J.R., Lopez-Pamies, O.
doi ResearchGate
Submitted, 2026 - Nucleation and propagation of brittle fracture as a constrained energy minimization problem
Lopez-Pamies, O., Kamarei, F., Francfort, G.A., Giacomini, A.
doi ResearchGate
Submitted, 2026 - The single edge notch fracture test for viscoelastic elastomers
Kamarei, F., Sozio, F., Lopez-Pamies, O.
doi ResearchGate
Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics, 2026 - Nine circles of elastic brittle fracture: A series of challenge problems to assess fracture models
Kamarei, F., Zeng, B., Dolbow, J.E., Lopez-Pamies, O.
doi ResearchGate
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2026 - When and where do large cracks grow? Griffith energy competition constrained by material strength
Lopez-Pamies, O., Kamarei, F.
doi ResearchGate
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2025