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 Duke 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 Scholarly Works
The Gap-Shifted Boundary Method for solid mechanics problems: Linear elasticity, hyperelasticity and elastoplasticity
Journal article Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · December 1, 2026 Immersed finite element methods significantly alleviate the burden of body-fitted mesh generation for complex geometries, yet they frequently suffer from algorithmic complexities associated with cut-cell numerical integration and matrix ill-conditioning. T ... Full text CiteThe isogeometric Gap-Shifted Boundary Method
Journal article Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · December 1, 2026 High-order immersed methods offer significant advantages for the simulation of complex geometries, but their practical performance is often limited by a trade-off between accuracy, robustness, and numerical conditioning. In this work, we present a high-ord ... Full text CitePhase-field/discontinuity capturing operator for direct van der waals simulation (DVS)
Journal article Journal of Computational Physics · June 1, 2026 Discontinuity capturing (DC) operators are commonly employed to numerically solve problems involving sharp gradients in the solution. Despite their success, the application of DC operators to the direct van der Waals simulation (DVS) remains challenging. T ... 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
Stanford University ·
2004
Ph.D.