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Guglielmo Scovazzi CV

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
121 Hudson Hall, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Overview


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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering · 2019 - Present Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science · 2022 - Present Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering

Recent Publications


The Shifted Boundary Method for contact problems

Journal Article Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · May 15, 2025 We propose an embedded algorithm for contact mechanics based on the Shifted Boundary Method. The contact conditions are applied on a surrogate contact surface in proximity of the true contact surface and Taylor expansions are used to change (shift) both th ... Full text Cite

A high-order Shifted Interface Method for Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics

Journal Article Journal of Computational Physics · February 15, 2025 We present a new method for two-material Lagrangian hydrodynamics, which combines the Shifted Interface Method (SIM) with a high-order Finite Element Method. Our approach relies on an exact (or sharp) material interface representation, that is, it uses the ... Full text Cite

A Shifted Boundary Method for the compressible Euler equations

Journal Article Journal of Computational Physics · January 1, 2025 The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) is applied to compressible Euler flows, with and without shock discontinuities. The SBM belongs to the class of unfitted (or immersed, or embedded) finite element methods and avoids integration over cut cells (and the asso ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


MPS/DMS-EPSRC: Advanced Computational Methods for Imperfect/Uncertain Geometries

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

High-order finite element methods for simulations of complex geometries without boundary fitted grids

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2020 - 2023

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Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 2004 Ph.D.