Dr. Guglielmo Scovazzi

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Biography

Guglielmo Scovazzi received a B.S./M.S. in aerospace engineering (summa cum laude) from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. Before joining Duke, Scovazzi was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Computer Science Research Institute of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. His research interests include advanced numerical methods in computational fluid-solid mechanics with a focus on finite element techniques, multiphase porous media flows, turbulent flow computations, and instability phenomena. He has published extensively on these topics, contributing to various leading journals in computational physics and engineering. Scovazzi has been recognized as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and the Kavli Foundation and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House in 2018. He was awarded the Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for outstanding contributions to advanced scientific computing research.

Research Interests

Awards

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Kavli Fellow

2018-01-01
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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

2018-01-01
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Early Career Award

2017-01-01

Courses

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Introduction to Finite Element Method Undergraduate Projects Internship Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Finite Element Methods Problems Introduction to Finite Element Method Matrix Structural Analysis

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)