Guglielmo Scovazzi, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	121 Hudson Hall, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o9vvqv3upfgz0y191oj0i/GS_CV.pdf?rlkey=0qiqwgczbo2ph7l43po589uzj&dl=0 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guglielmo_Scovazzi2

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• CEE 630.01, NONLIN FIN ELEMENT ANALY Synopsis

  Hudson 132, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as ME 525.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Stanford University	2004
MS (Mechanical Engineering)	Stanford University	2001
BS/MS (Aerospace Engineering)	Politecnico di Torino	1998

Specialties:

Computational Mechanics

Research Interests:

Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow computations, instability phenomena.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Atallah, NM; Canuto, C; Scovazzi, G, Analysis of the weighted shifted boundary method for the Poisson and Stokes problems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, vol. 205 (March, 2026), pp. 63-85 [doi]  [abs]
2. Xu, D; Colomés, O; Main, A; Li, K; Atallah, NM; Abboud, N; Scovazzi, G, A weighted shifted boundary method for the Navier-Stokes equations with immersed moving boundaries, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 548 (March, 2026) [doi]  [abs]
3. Yang, CH; Scovazzi, G; Krishnamurthy, A; Ganapathysubramanian, B, A shifted boundary method for thermal flows, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 547 (February, 2026) [doi]  [abs]
4. Yang, CH; Scovazzi, G; Krishnamurthy, A; Ganapathysubramanian, B, Simulating incompressible flows over complex geometries using the shifted boundary method with incomplete adaptive octree meshes, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 544 (January, 2026) [doi]  [abs]
5. Karki, S; Shadkhah, M; Yang, CH; Balu, A; Scovazzi, G; Krishnamurthy, A; Ganapathysubramanian, B, Direct flow simulations with implicit neural representation of complex geometry, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 446 (November, 2025) [doi]  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• MPS/DMS-EPSRC: Advanced Computational Methods for Imperfect/Uncertain Geometries, National Science Foundation, 2024/08-2027/07.      
• High-order finite element methods for simulations of complex geometries without boundary fitted grids, National Science Foundation, 2022/08-2025/07.      
• Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2020/11-2023/09.