Prof. Parviz Moin's Arthur Newell Talbot Distinguished Lecture, “Towards certification by analysis: Enabling technologies for industry ready large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows,” focused on his recent progress in numerical simulation of complex flows, and specifically for prediction of aircraft performance at the edges of flight envelope.
Written by
Moin (center) with host Professor Taher Saif (left) and Department Head Tony Jacobi (right).
Parviz Moin, the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, was the invited speaker for the 2026 Arthur Newell Talbot Distinguished Lecture.
Moin spoke to a packed auditorium in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) March 10.
His lecture, “Towards certification by analysis: Enabling technologies for industry ready large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows,” focused on his recent progress in numerical simulation of complex flows, and specifically for prediction of aircraft performance at the edges of flight envelope. It has been demonstrated that leveraging large eddy simulation (LES) technique with appropriate wall/subgrid-scale models and low dissipation numerical methods on modern computer architectures offers a tractable path towards meeting industry’s stringent accuracy and affordability requirements. He concluded his talk with an example of predictive capabilities as well as physics-based modeling challenges in the application of LES to aircraft icing.
Moin is the founding director of the Center for Turbulence Research and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. He pioneered the use of Direct Numerical Simulation for the study of turbulence physics and has written widely on the structure of turbulent shear flows. His current interests include numerical simulation of complex multi-physics turbulent flows for aerospace applications, physics and control of turbulent boundary layers, hypersonic flows, and aircraft icing.
Moin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, AIAA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Arthur Newell Talbot was named Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering in charge of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1890 and led the curriculum until 1926, when the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was formally created. He regarded teaching as the most important aspect of his work at the University. The Arthur Newell Talbot Distinguished Lecture is made possible through the support of the Talbot family, in honor of their ancestor’s commitment to learning and teaching.