Charles El Mir, Ph.D.
Department of Engineering
Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2018
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Dayton, USA, 2013
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Balamand, Lebanon, 2011
Practice Areas
- Computational Modeling
- Numerical Methods
- Multiscale Analysis
- Planetary Science Applications
- High-Strain Rate Simulations
Publications and Media Placements
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo 鈥淭he efficiency of thermal fatigue in regolith
generation on small airless bodies鈥�, Icarus, Vol. 333, pp. 356鈥�370, 2019.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Derek C. Richardson. 鈥淎 new hybrid framework for simulating
hypervelocity asteroid impacts and gravitational reaccumulation鈥�, Icarus, Vol. 321, pp. 1013鈥�1025, 2019.
K. Hazeli, C. El Mir, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Marco Delbo, and KT Ramesh 鈥淭he Origins
of Asteroidal Rock Disaggregation: Interplay of Thermal Fatigue and Microstructure鈥�,
Icarus, Vol. 304, pp. 172鈥�182, 2018.
J. D. Hogan, C. El Mir, Jeffrey B. Plescia, and KT Ramesh 鈥淒ynamic brittle fragmentation:
Probing the byproducts of hypervelocity impact in space.鈥�, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 103, pp. 205鈥�212, 2015.
C. El Mir, Elias Toubia, and Robert Brockman 鈥淎nalysis of cylindrical sandwich structures
with weak orthotropic core under patch loading鈥�, Engineering Structures, Vol. 80, pp. 89鈥�97, 2014.
C. El Mir et al. 鈥淚mpact Simulations for the DART Mission Using a New Computational
Approach.鈥� AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., October 13鈥�15, 2018.
C. El Mir and KT Ramesh 鈥淔atigue and Fracture among the Asteroids鈥�, Society of Engineering
Sciences 56th Technical Meeting, MS, October 13鈥�15, 2019.
C. El Mir et al. 鈥淎 new hybrid framework for simulating asteroid impact events: from
damage to disruption and gravitational accumulation.鈥�, 9th Workshop on Catastrophic
Disruption in the Solar System, Japan, May 14鈥�17, 2018.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Derek C. Richardson 鈥淗ypervelocity Impacts onto Small Asteroids:
Disruption Thresholds, Momentum Transfer, and the Effect of Rotating Targets.鈥�, 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Con., TX, March 19鈥�23, 2018.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Derek C. Richardson 鈥淎 New Hybrid Numerical Technique for
the Simulation of Asteroidal Impact Events", Society of Engineering Sciences 54th Technical Meeting, MA, July 25鈥�28, 2017.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Derek C. Richardson 鈥淎 New Approach to Simulation of Asteroidal
Impact Events: From Damage to Disruption and Gravitational Accumulation.鈥�, 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Con., TX, March 20鈥�24, 2017.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo 鈥淭hermal Fatigue on Small Airless Bodies.鈥� Asteroids,
Comets, and Meteors., Uruguay, April 10鈥�14, 2017.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo 鈥淭he Contribution of Thermal Fatigue on Lunar
Regolith Evolution", Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, MD, November 1鈥�3, 2016.
Kavan Hazeli, Charles El Mir, and KT Ramesh 鈥淒amage precursors and fatigue life prediction
in heterogeneous solids: Thermal fatigue on asteroids.鈥�, Society of Engineering Sciences
53rd Technical Meeting, Invited talk, MD, October 2鈥�5, 2016.
A. M. Stickle, O. S. Barnouin, M. Bruck Syal, A. Cheng, C. El Mir et al. 鈥淚mpact Simulation
Benchmarking for the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART).鈥�, Lunar and Planetary Science
Conference, Vol. 47, 2016.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo. 鈥淭hermal Fatigue: Lengthscales, Timescales,
and Their Implications on Regolith Size鈥揊requency Distribution.鈥�, 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Con., TX, March 21鈥�25, 2016.
K. Hazeli, C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo 鈥淩egolith Formation on Airless Bodies鈥�,
46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, TX, March 16鈥�20, 2015.
C. El Mir, Elias Toubia, and Robert Brockman 鈥淎nalysis of cylindrical sandwich structures
under moving loads.鈥�, 18th International Conference on Composite Structures., Portugal, June 15鈥�18, 2015.
K. Hazeli, C. El Mir et al. 鈥淢echanical Properties of Constituent Phases in Meteorites.鈥�,
AGU Fall Meeting., CA, December 15鈥�19, 2014.
C. El Mir, KT Ramesh, and Marco Delbo 鈥淥rigin and Evolution of Regolith on Airless
Bodies: The Role of Thermal Fatigue鈥�, NASA Exploration Science Forum, at NASA Ames
Research Center, CA, July 21鈥�23, 2014.
Selected Media Highlights
"Could we avert a major asteroid strike?", Engineering & Technology Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 10, 鈥淚f We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together鈥�, The New York Times, 鈥淗ollywood was wrong about asteroids, new study says鈥�, CNN, 鈥淎steroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thought鈥�, Science Daily,