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 in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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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 CiteA 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 CiteA 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 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.