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.
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
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2019 - Present
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Pratt School of Engineering
Professor of Mathematics
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2025 - Present
Mathematics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Analysis of the weighted shifted boundary method for the Poisson and Stokes problems
Journal Article Computers and Mathematics with Applications · March 1, 2026 The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) belongs to the class of unfitted (or immersed, or embedded) finite element methods, and relies on reformulating the original boundary value problem over a surrogate (approximate) computational domain. Accuracy is maintaine ... Full text CiteA weighted shifted boundary method for the Navier-Stokes equations with immersed moving boundaries
Journal Article Journal of Computational Physics · March 1, 2026 The Weighted Shifted Boundary Method (WSBM) was recently introduced as an enhanced Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) for the simulation of flows with moving boundaries. Earlier work of the authors on no-slip boundary conditions for the two-dimensional Stokes f ... Full text CiteA shifted boundary method for thermal flows
Journal Article Journal of Computational Physics · February 15, 2026 We present an implementation of the Shifted Boundary Method (Octree-SBM) on incomplete Octree meshes for multiphysics simulations of coupled flow and heat transfer. Specifically, a semi-implicit formulation of the thermal Navier-Stokes equations is used to ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
MPS/DMS-EPSRC: Advanced Computational Methods for Imperfect/Uncertain Geometries
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027High-order finite element methods for simulations of complex geometries without boundary fitted grids
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · 2020 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
2004
Ph.D.