Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Guglielmo Scovazzi received B.S/M.S. in aerospace engineering (summa cum laude) from Politecnico di Torino (Italy); and M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Before coming to Duke, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM).
Dr. Scovazzi’s research interests include finite element and advanced numerical methods for computational fluid and solid mechanics. His research emphasizes accurate computational methods aimed at reducing the overall design/analysis costs in multiphase porous media flows, highly transient compressible and incompressible flows, turbulent flows, complex geometry systems in solid mechanics, and fluid/structure interaction problems.
Dr. Scovazzi’s research interests include finite element and advanced numerical methods for computational fluid and solid mechanics. His research emphasizes accurate computational methods aimed at reducing the overall design/analysis costs in multiphase porous media flows, highly transient compressible and incompressible flows, turbulent flows, complex geometry systems in solid mechanics, and fluid/structure interaction problems.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative
Contact Information
- Office Location: 121 Hudson Hall, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5075
- Email Address: guglielmo.scovazzi@duke.edu
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Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 2004
Research Interests
Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow computations, instability phenomena.Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Kavli Fellow. National Academy of Sciences & Kavli Foundation. 2018
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE). US Executive Office of the President (The White House). 2017
- Early Career Award. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program. 2014
Courses Taught
- CEE 421L: Matrix Structural Analysis
- CEE 531: Finite Element Methods for Problems in Fluid Mechanics
- CEE 630: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
- CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 780: Internship
- EGR 201L: Mechanics of Solids
- ME 525: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
In the News
- Scovazzi Named Kavli Fellow by the US Academy of Science (Feb 22, 2018)
- Scovazzi Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (Jan…
- Pratt's Guglielmo Scovazzi Wins DOE Early Career Award (May 13, 2014)
Representative Publications
- Zeng, X., G. Stabile, E. N. Karatzas, G. Scovazzi, and G. Rozza. “Embedded domain Reduced Basis Models for the shallow water hyperbolic equations with the Shifted Boundary Method.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 398 (August 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115143.
- Atallah, N. M., C. Canuto, and G. Scovazzi. “The high-order Shifted Boundary Method and its analysis.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 394 (May 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.114885.
- Li, K., N. M. Atallah, A. Rodríguez-Ferran, D. M. Valiveti, and G. Scovazzi. “The shifted fracture method.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 122, no. 22 (November 30, 2021): 6641–79. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6806.
- Atallah, N. M., C. Canuto, and G. Scovazzi. “The shifted boundary method for solid mechanics.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 122, no. 20 (October 30, 2021): 5935–70. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6779.
- Atallah, N. M., C. Canuto, and G. Scovazzi. “Analysis Of The Shifted Boundary Method For The Poisson Problem In Domains With Corners.” Mathematics of Computation 90, no. 331 (September 1, 2021): 2041–69. https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3641.