Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Stanford University 2004
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2019 - 2021
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2016 - 2019
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2016 - 2019
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2012 - 2016
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2012 - 2015
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • FEB 22, 2018

    Scovazzi Named Kavli Fellow by the US Academy of Science

  • JAN 10, 2017

    Scovazzi Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

  • MAY 13, 2014

    Pratt's Guglielmo Scovazzi Wins DOE Early Career Award
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  Awards & Honors

  • Kavli Fellow. National Academy of Sciences & Kavli Foundation. February 2018
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE). US Executive Office of the President (The White House). January 2017
  • Early Career Award. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program. May 2014
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations awarded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2020 - 2023
  • REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering awarded by  National Science Foundation 2017 - 2022
  • Development of a Prototypical Algorithm Based on the Shifted Boundary Method Framework awarded by Exxon Mobil Corporation 2014 - 2021
  • The shifted interface method for solid mechanics: An embedded domain approach. Mathematical Sciences Division - Numerical Analysis Program, Dr. Joseph Myers,joseph.d.myers8.civ@mail.mil awarded by Army Research Office 2018 - 2021
  • Numerical Parallel Scalability of the Shifted Boundary Method awarded by Army Research Office 2020 - 2021
  • Advanced Methods for Lagrangian Shock Hydrodynamics awarded by Sandia National Laboratories 2019 - 2020
  • Development of Software combining the Shifted Boundary Method and non-Gaussian Fractional Stochastic Modeling for the Solution of Coupled Partial Differential Equations Related to Additive Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation Applications awarded by Naval Research Laboratory 2019 - 2020
  • Advanced Methods for Immersed Domain Multi-physics Computations awarded by Department of Energy 2014 - 2019
  • Uncertainty Quantification in LES Computations of Turbulent Multiphase Combustion in a SCRAMJET Engine awarded by Sandia National Laboratories 2016 - 2019
  • Computational Methods for Wave Slamming Simulation awarded by Office of Naval Research 2014 - 2017
  • Continuous/Discontinuous Variational Multiscale Methods for Variable Density Flows. awarded by Army Research Office 2013 - 2016
  • Hybrid Computing Architectures as a Platform for Advanced Multi-scale Computational Methods awarded by Army Research Office 2015 - 2016
  • Towards Rigorous Multiphysics Shock-Hydro Capabilities for Predictive Computational Analysis awarded by Sandia National Laboratories 2013 - 2015
  • Visit the Computational Mathematics Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. awarded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities 2014 - 2015
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Colomés, O., A. Main, L. Nouveau, and G. Scovazzi. “A weighted Shifted Boundary Method for free surface flow problems.” Journal of Computational Physics 424 (January 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109837.
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    • Atallah, N. M., C. Canuto, and G. Scovazzi. “The second-generation Shifted Boundary Method and its numerical analysis.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 372 (December 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113341.
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    • Karatzas, E. N., G. Stabile, L. Nouveau, G. Scovazzi, and G. Rozza. “A reduced-order shifted boundary method for parametrized incompressible Navier–Stokes equations.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 370 (October 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113273.
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    • Li, K., N. M. Atallah, G. A. Main, and G. Scovazzi. “The Shifted Interface Method: A flexible approach to embedded interface computations.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 121, no. 3 (February 15, 2020): 492–518. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6231.
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    • Abboud, N., and G. Scovazzi. “A variational multiscale method with linear tetrahedral elements for multiplicative viscoelasticity.” Mechanics Research Communications, January 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2020.103610.
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    • Atallah, N. M., C. Canuto, and G. Scovazzi. “Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 358 (January 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112609.
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    • Nouveau, L., M. Ricchiuto, and G. Scovazzi. “High-order gradients with the shifted boundary method: An embedded enriched mixed formulation for elliptic PDEs.” Journal of Computational Physics 398 (December 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.108898.
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    • Zeng, X., K. Li, and G. Scovazzi. “An ALE/embedded boundary method for two-material flow simulations.” Computers and Mathematics With Applications 78, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 335–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2018.05.002.
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    • Karatzas, E. N., G. Stabile, L. Nouveau, G. Scovazzi, and G. Rozza. “A reduced basis approach for PDEs on parametrized geometries based on the shifted boundary finite element method and application to a Stokes flow.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 347 (April 15, 2019): 568–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.12.040.
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    • Colomés, O., G. Scovazzi, and J. Guilleminot. “On the robustness of variational multiscale error estimators for the forward propagation of uncertainty.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 342 (December 1, 2018): 384–413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.07.041.
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    • Main, A., and G. Scovazzi. “The shifted boundary method for embedded domain computations. Part I: Poisson and Stokes problems.” Journal of Computational Physics 372 (November 1, 2018): 972–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.10.026.
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    • Main, A., and G. Scovazzi. “The shifted boundary method for embedded domain computations. Part II: Linear advection–diffusion and incompressible Navier–Stokes equations.” Journal of Computational Physics 372 (November 1, 2018): 996–1026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.01.023.
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    • Song, T., A. Main, G. Scovazzi, and M. Ricchiuto. “The shifted boundary method for hyperbolic systems: Embedded domain computations of linear waves and shallow water flows.” Journal of Computational Physics 369 (September 15, 2018): 45–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.04.052.
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    • Abboud, N., and G. Scovazzi. “Elastoplasticity with linear tetrahedral elements: A variational multiscale method.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 115, no. 8 (August 24, 2018): 913–55. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5831.
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    • Kucharik, M., G. Scovazzi, M. Shashkov, and R. Loubère. “A multi-scale residual-based anti-hourglass control for compatible staggered Lagrangian hydrodynamics.” Journal of Computational Physics 354 (February 1, 2018): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.10.050.
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    • Wang, G., G. Scovazzi, L. Nouveau, C. E. Kees, S. Rossi, O. Colomés, and A. Main. “Dual-scale Galerkin methods for Darcy flow.” Journal of Computational Physics 354 (February 1, 2018): 111–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.10.047.
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    • Zeng, X., G. Scovazzi, N. Abboud, O. Colomés, and S. Rossi. “A dynamic variational multiscale method for viscoelasticity using linear tetrahedral elements.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 112, no. 13 (December 28, 2017): 1951–2003. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5591.
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    • Scovazzi, G., T. Song, and X. Zeng. “A velocity/stress mixed stabilized nodal finite element for elastodynamics: Analysis and computations with strongly and weakly enforced boundary conditions.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 325 (October 1, 2017): 532–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2017.07.018.
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    • Scovazzi, G., M. F. Wheeler, A. Mikelić, and S. Lee. “Analytical and variational numerical methods for unstable miscible displacement flows in porous media.” Journal of Computational Physics 335 (April 15, 2017): 444–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.01.021.
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    • Rossi, S., N. Abboud, and G. Scovazzi. “Implicit finite incompressible elastodynamics with linear finite elements: A stabilized method in rate form.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 311 (November 1, 2016): 208–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.07.015.
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    • Zeng, X., and G. Scovazzi. “A variational multiscale finite element method for monolithic ALE computations of shock hydrodynamics using nodal elements.” Journal of Computational Physics 315 (June 15, 2016): 577–608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.052.
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    • Scovazzi, G., B. Carnes, X. Zeng, and S. Rossi. “A simple, stable, and accurate linear tetrahedral finite element for transient, nearly, and fully incompressible solid dynamics: A dynamic variational multiscale approach.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 106, no. 10 (June 8, 2016): 799–839. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5138.
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    • Song, T., and G. Scovazzi. “A Nitsche method for wave propagation problems in time domain.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 293 (August 5, 2015): 481–521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2015.05.001.
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    • Zeng, X., and G. Scovazzi. “A frame-invariant vector limiter for flux corrected nodal remap in arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian flow computations.” Journal of Computational Physics 270 (August 1, 2014): 753–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2014.03.054.
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    • Siefert, C., R. Tuminaro, A. Gerstenberger, G. Scovazzi, and S. S. Collis. “Algebraic multigrid techniques for discontinuous Galerkin methods with varying polynomial order.” Computational Geosciences 18, no. 5 (January 1, 2014): 597–612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-014-9419-x.
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    • Scovazzi, G., H. Huang, S. S. Collis, and J. Yin. “A fully-coupled upwind discontinuous Galerkin method for incompressible porous media flows: High-order computations of viscous fingering instabilities in complex geometry.” Journal of Computational Physics 252 (November 1, 2013): 86–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.06.012.
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    • Rider, W. J., E. Love, G. Scovazzi, and V. G. Weirs. “A high resolution Lagrangian method using nonlinear hybridization and hyperviscosity.” Computers and Fluids 83 (August 6, 2013): 25–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.09.009.
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    • Huang, H., and G. Scovazzi. “A high-order, fully coupled, upwind, compact discontinuous Galerkin method for modeling of viscous fingering in compressible porous media.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 263 (August 5, 2013): 169–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2013.04.010.
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    • Bazilevs, Y., I. Akkerman, D. J. Benson, G. Scovazzi, and M. J. Shashkov. “Isogeometric analysis of Lagrangian hydrodynamics.” Journal of Computational Physics 243 (June 5, 2013): 224–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.02.021.
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    • Gerstenberger, A., G. Scovazzi, and S. S. Collis. “Computing gravity-driven viscous fingering in complex subsurface geometries: A high-order discontinuous Galerkin approach.” Computational Geosciences 17, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 351–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-012-9334-y.
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    • Scovazzi, G., A. Gerstenberger, and S. S. Collis. “A discontinuous galerkin method for gravity-driven viscous fingering instabilities in porous media.” Journal of Computational Physics 233, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 373–99.
    • Scovazzi, G. “Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics on tetrahedral meshes: A stable and accurate variational multiscale approach.” Journal of Computational Physics 231, no. 24 (October 15, 2012): 8029–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.06.033.
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    • Scovazzi, G., and B. Carnes. “Weak boundary conditions for wave propagation problems in confined domains: Formulation and implementation using a variational multiscale method.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 221–222 (May 1, 2012): 117–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2012.01.018.
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    • Scovazzi, G., A. Gerstenberger, and S. S. Collis. “A discontinuous Galerkin method for gravity-driven viscous fingering instabilities in porous media.” Journal of Computational Physics, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.09.003.
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    • Auricchio, F., and G. Scovazzi. “Numerical methods for multi-material fluids and structures (MULTIMAT-2009).” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 65, no. 11–12 (April 1, 2011): 1279–80. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.2546.
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    • Bochev, P., D. Ridzal, G. Scovazzi, and M. Shashkov. “Formulation, analysis and numerical study of an optimization-based conservative interpolation (remap) of scalar fields for arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian methods.” Journal of Computational Physics 230, no. 13 (January 1, 2011): 5199–5225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.03.017.
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    • López Ortega, A., and G. Scovazzi. “A geometrically-conservative, synchronized, flux-corrected remap for arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian computations with nodal finite elements.” Journal of Computational Physics 230, no. 17 (January 1, 2011): 6709–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.05.005.
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    • Masud, A., and G. Scovazzi. “A heterogeneous multiscale modeling framework for hierarchical systems of partial differential equations.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 65, no. 1–3 (January 1, 2011): 28–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.2456.
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    • Scovazzi, G., J. N. Shadid, E. Love, and W. J. Rider. “A conservative nodal variational multiscale method for Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199, no. 49–52 (December 15, 2010): 3059–3100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2010.03.027.
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    • Scovazzi, G., and E. Love. “A generalized view on Galilean invariance in stabilized compressible flow computations.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 64, no. 10–12 (December 7, 2010): 1065–83. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.2417.
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    • Hughes, T. J. R., G. Scovazzi, and T. E. Tezduyar. “Stabilized methods for compressible flows.” Journal of Scientific Computing 43, no. 3 (June 1, 2010): 343–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-008-9233-5.
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    • Love, E., W. J. Rider, and G. Scovazzi. “Stability analysis of a predictor/multi-corrector method for staggered-grid Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics.” Journal of Computational Physics 228, no. 20 (November 1, 2009): 7543–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.06.042.
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    • Love, E., and G. Scovazzi. “On the angular momentum conservation and incremental objectivity properties of a predictor/multi-corrector method for Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 198, no. 41–44 (September 1, 2009): 3207–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2009.06.002.
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    • Scovazzi, G., E. Love, and M. J. Shashkov. “Multi-scale Lagrangian shock hydrodynamics on Q1/P0 finite elements: Theoretical framework and two-dimensional computations.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 197, no. 9–12 (February 1, 2008): 1056–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2007.10.002.
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    • Robinson, A. C., T. A. Brunner, S. Carroll, S. Richarddrake, C. J. Garasi, T. Gardiner, T. Haill, et al. “ALEGRA: An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian multimaterial, multiphysics code.” 46th Aiaa Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 1, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-1235.
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    • Bazilevs, Y., V. M. Calo, J. A. Cottrell, T. J. R. Hughes, A. Reali, and G. Scovazzi. “Variational multiscale residual-based turbulence modeling for large eddy simulation of incompressible flows.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 197, no. 1–4 (December 1, 2007): 173–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2007.07.016.
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    • Scovazzi, G. “Galilean invariance and stabilized methods for compressible flows.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 54, no. 6–8 (July 20, 2007): 757–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.1423.
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    • Scovazzi, G. “Stabilized shock hydrodynamics: II. Design and physical interpretation of the SUPG operator for Lagrangian computations.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 196, no. 4–6 (January 1, 2007): 967–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2006.08.009.
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    • Scovazzi, G. “A discourse on Galilean invariance, SUPG stabilization, and the variational multiscale framework.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 196, no. 4–6 (January 1, 2007): 1108–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2006.08.012.
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    • Scovazzi, G., M. A. Christon, T. J. R. Hughes, and J. N. Shadid. “Stabilized shock hydrodynamics: I. A Lagrangian method.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 196, no. 4–6 (January 1, 2007): 923–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2006.08.008.
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    • Bochev, P., T. J. R. Hughes, and G. Scovazzi. “A multiscale discontinuous Galerkin method.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 3743 LNCS (June 29, 2006): 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/11666806_8.
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    • Hughes, T. J. R., G. Scovazzi, P. B. Bochev, and A. Buffa. “A multiscale discontinuous Galerkin method with the computational structure of a continuous Galerkin method.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 195, no. 19–22 (April 1, 2006): 2761–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2005.06.006.
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  • Book Sections

    • Karatzas, E. N., G. Stabile, N. Atallah, G. Scovazzi, and G. Rozza. “A Reduced Order Approach for the Embedded Shifted Boundary FEM and a Heat Exchange System on Parametrized Geometries.” In IUTAM Bookseries, 36:111–25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21013-7_8.
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    • Klein, M., G. Scovazzi, and M. Germano. “On the richardson extrapolation of the reynolds stress with the systematic grid and model variation method.” In ERCOFTAC Series, 25:143–49, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04915-7_20.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Ferrero, A., F. Larocca, M. Germano, and G. Scovazzi. “A study on the statistical convergence of turbulence simulations around a cylinder.” In Aip Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2293, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0026757.
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    • Colomés, O., G. Scovazzi, I. Sraj, O. Knio, and O. L. Maître. “A finite volume error estimator inspired by the variational multiscale approach.” In Aiaa Non Deterministic Approaches Conference, 2018, Vol. 0, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-1178.
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    • Bazilevs, Y., V. M. Calo, T. J. R. Hughes, and G. Scovazzi. “Variational multiscale theory of LES turbulence modeling.” In Ercoftac Series, 13:103–12, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3652-0_16.
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    • Hughes, Thomas J. R., Victor M. Calo, and Guglielmo Scovazzi. “Variational and Multiscale Methods in Turbulence,” 153–63. Springer-Verlag, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3559-4_9.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CEE 630: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis 2021
  • ME 525: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis 2021
  • CEE 421L: Matrix Structural Analysis 2020
  • CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering 2020
  • CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering 2019
  • CEE 780: Internship 2019
  • EGR 201L: Mechanics of Solids 2019
  • ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering 2019

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