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INTERESTS:
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Computational and theoretical fluid dynamics;
numerical methods; turbulence, Large
Eddy Simulation with applications to environmental flows and
oceanography; oceanography; internal waves and stratified flows; sediment
transport.
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EDUCATION:
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| 1997 |
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Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Ph.D. Thesis: ``On scale-invariance based models of hydrodynamic turbulence.'' (Prof. C. Meneveau, advisor) |
| 1994 |
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M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland M.S. Thesis: ``Fractal dimension of velocity signals in high-Reynolds number turbulence'' (Prof. C. Meneveau, advisor) |
| 1992 |
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Laurea in Fisica
Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy Tesi di laurea: ``Applicazioni del gruppo di rinormalizzazione allo studio della turbolenza isotropa'' (Applications of the RNG to the study of isotropic turbulence) (Prof. C. Cercignani, E. Montaldi, advisors) |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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| Fall 2010 |
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Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Università di Trieste, Italy.
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| 2007-present |
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Associate Professor,
Dept. of Marine Sciences, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Lecturer,
2008 Les Houches Summer School on Atmospheric Boundary Layers.
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| Spring 2005 |
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Visiting Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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| 2001-2007 |
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Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Marine Sciences, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| 1999-2001 |
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Research Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Marine Sciences, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| 1997-1999 |
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Post Doctoral Scholar, Dr. R. Beardsley, Mentor.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. |
| 1996 |
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Summer program fellow,
Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford, CA
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| 1992-1997 |
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Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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| 1987-1992 |
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Teaching assistant,
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione (Computer Science),
Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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AWARDS AND HONORS:
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1998
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Winner of the Keith Runcorn Travel Award offered by the European
Geophysical Society to present a paper at the 23rd General Assembly
of the society.
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1997
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Winner of a "Post Doctoral Scholarship" at
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
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1996
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| Winner of the ``A. Frigerio'' award granted by the Italian Society of Physics. |
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1993-1995
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| Recipient of CNR fellowship. |
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1992
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Graduated Università degli studi di Milano Magna Cum Laude.
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TEACHING RECORD:
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Courses Taught
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
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Scientific committees
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Guest Editor
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Service to discipline
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EXTERNAL FUNDING: For multi-institution proposals, actual amount awarded to UNC is indicated. |
| Principal Investigator |
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Barotropic to baroclinic energy conversion across topographically
rough straits with application to the Luzon Strait. Amount: $312,220. Period covered: 10/01/08 - 30/09/13. Sponsoring agency:
ONR. (with S. Sarkar, UCSD).
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Collaborative Research: Internal waves impinging on near-critical
slopes. Amount: $207,710. Period covered: 09/01/08 - -9/31/11/
Sponsoring agency: NSF. (with S. Sarkar, UCSD).
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Collaborative Research:The dynamics of shoaling and breaking nonlinear
internal waves: Their associated mass transport and mixing and
buoyancy and energy balances. Amount: $101,983. Period
covered:01/01/07 - 31/12/10. Sponsoring agency: NSF. (with J. Lerczak WHOI and K. Shearman, OSU).
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Collaborative Research: Rapid gravitational adjustment of horizontally
sheared gravity currents. Amount: $99,604. Period covered:09/01/07 -
08/31/10. Sponsoring agency: NSF. (with K. Helfrich, WHOI).
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A holistic approach to modeling nonlinear internal waves with a three-dimensional nonhydrostatic model. Amount:
$399,00. Period covered: 6/1/05 - 31/5/10. Sponsoring agency: ONR.
(S. Mitran and M. Minion Co-Pi)
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Collaborative research: Sediment transport in oscillating turbulent
boundary layers. Amount:
$361,500. Period covered: 10/1/03 - 9/30/06. Sponsoring agency: NSF.
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A regional adaptive model for the study of nonlinear internal waves. Amount:
$200,000. Period covered: 1/1/03 - 12/31/04. Sponsoring agency: ONR. (S. Mitran and M. Minion Co-Pi)
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Numerical investigation of the wave boundary layer over rippled bed
with application to sediment transport. Amount:
$131,000. Period covered: 10/01/99 - 09/31/03. Sponsoring agency: NSF.
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| Co-Principal Investigator |
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An Experimental System for stratified Fluid Dynamics Research at the UNC Joint
Fluids Laboratory. Amount: $400,752. ONR-DURIP. (R. Camassa PI and R. McLaughlin Co-PI)
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Acquisition of A Modular Wave Tank for Fundamental and Applied
Research in the New UNC Multiscale Fluid Dynamics Lab. Amount:
$619,600. Period covered: 08/01/06 - 07/30/09. Sponsoring
agency: NSF (R. Camassa Pi, R. McLaughlin and C. Werner Co-Pi).
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Collaborative Research. CMG: Multi-Scaled Dependent, Heavy Tailed
Distributions in Geophysical Flow: Physical Mechanisms and Data
Assimilation. Amount: $480,000.
Period covered: 09/15/03 - 09/14/06.
Sponsoring agency: NSF (R. McLaughlin PI).
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Biocomplexity: Marine benthic population dynamics.
Amount awarded to UNC: $142,600 (out of a total of $3,012,432).
Period covered: 09/01/00 - 08/30/05.
Sponsoring agency: NSF (J. Pineda PI, 4 other Co-Pis from WHOI).
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A Distributed, High Performance Computing System for the Applied
Sciences. Amount: $598,173. Period covered: 08/10/01-
07/31/04. Sponsoring agency: NSF (R. Camassa PI).
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Plankton distribution in internal waves in Massachusetts Bay.
Amount:
$35,304. Period covered: 01/01/01 - 12/31/03. Sponsoring agency: ONR.
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Atmospheric forcing and its spatial variability over the Sea of Japan. Amount:
$128,284. Period covered: 10/01/99 - 30/06/03. Sponsoring agency: ONR.
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PUBLICATIONS
(Boldface titles denote invited contributions) |
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CHAPTERS in BOOKS (refereed): |
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A. Scotti, M. Gasser i Rubinat and E. Balaras,
"LES of pulsating
turbulent flows over smooth and wavy boundaries", in Notes on
Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design,
Turbulence and Interactions, Keynote lectures of the TI 2009
conference,
(Springer-Verlag) (2010).
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A. Scotti, "DNS of a gravity current propagating
over a free-slip boundary", in Direct and Large Eddy Simulation VII,
Proceedings of the Seventh International ERCOFTAC Workshop on Direct
and Large Eddy Simulation, V. Armenio, B. Geurts and J. Frölich
eds., (Springer-Verlag) (2010).
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U. Piomelli, A. Scotti & E. Balaras , "Large Eddy
Simulation of turbulent flows, from desktop to supercomputer", in Vector
and Parallel Processing, VECPAR2000, Lecture Notes in Computer
Sciences, J.M.L.M. Palma et al. eds., (Springer-Verlag) 551-577 (2001).
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REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS |
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A. Scotti and B. White, Is Horizontal Convection really
``non-turbulent''?, G. Res. Lett., In press, 2011.
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E. Santilli and A. Scotti, An efficient nethod for solving
elliptic equations on highly anisotropic grids, J. Comp. Phys., 230(23), 8342-8359 , 2011.
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A. Scotti, Inviscid critical and near-critical reflection of
internal waves in the time domain, J. Fluid Mech., 674,
464-488, 2011
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R. Grimshaw, K. Helfrich and A. Scotti, Large amplitude
internal waves in the coastal ocean, Nonlinear Proc. Geophys.,
18, 653-655, 2010.
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A. Scotti, Large Eddy Simulation in the ocean, Int. J. Comp. Fluid Dyn. 24(10), 393-406, 2010 (DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2010.522527).
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A. Scotti and S. Mitran,
An approximated method for the solution of elliptic problems in thin domains: Application to nonlinear internal waves,
Ocean Modelling, 25, 144-153, 2008.
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A. Scotti,
A numerical study of the frontal region of a gravity current propagating over a free-slip surface,
Theor. Comp. Fluid Dyn., 22, 383-402, 2008.
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A. Scotti, R. C. Beardsley, B. Butman and J. Pineda,
Shoaling of Nonlinear Internal Waves in Massachusetts Bay,
J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08031, doi:10.1029/2008JC004726, 2008.
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J. C. Bronski, R. Camassa, Z. Lin, R. M. McLaughlin and
A. Scotti, An explicit family of probability measures for
passive scalar diffusion in a random fluid flow, J. Stat. Phys., 128,
927-968, 2007
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A. Scotti, R. C. Beardsley and B. Butman, Generation and
propagation of nonlinear internal waves in Massachusetts Bay,
J. Geophys. Res., 112, C10001, doi:10.1029/2007JC004313,
2007.
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Scotti, A. and J. Pineda, ``Plankton accumulation and transport
in propagating nonlinear internal fronts,''
J. Marine Res., 65, 1-30, 2007.
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B. Butman, P. S. Alexander, A. Scotti, R. C. Beardsley and
S. Anderson, ``Large internal waves in Massachusetts Bay transport
sediment offshore'', Cont. Shelf Res., 26, 2029-2049,
2006.
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C. Dorman, K. Friehe, J. Khelif, A. Scotti, J. Edson,
R. Beardsley, D. Limeburner and S. Chen,
``Winter Atmospheric Conditions over the Japan Sea; the structure and
impact of severe Cold-Air Outbreaks'', Oceanography, 19(3), 68-81, 2006.
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A. Scotti R. C. Beardsley and
B. Butman, ``On the interpretation of
energy and energy fluxes of nonlinear internal waves: An example from
Massachusetts Bay'', J. Fluid Mech., 561, 103-112, 2006.
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A. Scotti, ``DNS of turbulent channel flows with boundary
roughened with virtual sandpaper'', Phys. Fluids,
18(3), 031701, 2006.
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Y-S Chang and A. Scotti, ``Turbulent Convection of Suspended
Sediments due to Flow Reversal'', J. Geophys. Res., 111, C07001,
doi:10.1029/2005JC003240, 2006.
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A. Scotti, ``Orographic effects during winter cold-air
outbreaks over the Sea of Japan (East Sea): Results from a
shallow-laer model'',Deep-Sea Research Part II, 52,
1705-1725, 2005.
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A. Scotti, B. Butman, R. C. Beardlesy, P.S. Alexander and
S. Anderson, ``A modified beam-to-earth transformation to measure
short-wavelength
internal waves with an acoustic Doppler current profiler'',
J. Atmosp. Ocean. Tech., 22, 583-591, 2005.
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A. Scotti and J. Pineda, ``Observation of very large and steep internal waves of elevation near
the Massachusetts coast'', Geophysical Research Letters',
31, L22307, 2004.
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Y-S Chang and A. Scotti, ``Modeling unsteady turbulent flows over ripples: Reynolds-averaged
Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) versus large-eddy simulation
(LES)'', J. Geophys. Res., 109(C9) C09012, 2004.
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Y-S Chang and A. Scotti, ``Entrainment and suspension of
sediments into a turbulent flow over ripples'', Journal of
Turbulence, 4, 019, 2003.
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A. Scotti & U. Piomelli "Turbulence models in
pulsating flows", AIAA Journal, 40(3) 537-544
(2002).
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J. Colosi, J. Lynch, R. Beardsley, G. Gawarkiewicz,
Scotti & C-S Chiu, "Observations of non-linear internal
waves on the outer New England continental shelf during the summer
shelfbreak PRIMER study", Journal of Geophysical Research,
106(C5) 9587-9601 (2001).
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P. Fratantoni, B. Pickart, D. Torres and A. Scotti ,
"Mean synoptic structure of the shelf break jet in the Middle Atlantic
Bight", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31,
2135-2156 (2001).
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A. Scotti & U. Piomelli , "Numerical simulation of
pulsating turbulent channel flow", Physics of Fluids,
13(5), 1367-1384 (2001).
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A. Scotti & C. Meneveau, "A fractal model for Large Eddy
Simulation of turbulent flows", Physica D, 127,
192-232 (1999).
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A. Scotti & C. Meneveau, ''Fractal model for coarse-grained
partial differential equations'', Phys. Rev. Let., 78,
867-870 (1997).
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A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & M. Fatica, ''Dynamic Smagorinsky
model on anisotropic grids'', Phys. Fluid, 9,
1856-1858 (1997).
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T. Osborn & A. Scotti, ``The effect of turbulence on
predator-prey contact rates: where to go from here?'', Marine
Ecology Progress Series, 139, 302-304 (1996).
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A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & S. G. Saddoughi 1995, ``Fractal dimension
of velocity signals in high-Reynolds-number hydrodynamic
turbulence'', Phys. Rev. E, 51, 5594-5608 (1995).
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A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & D. K. Lilly, ``Generalized
Smagorinsky model for anisotropic grids'', Phys. Fluids A, 5, 2306-2308 (1993).
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INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS |
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A. Scotti, Hydrostatic ma non troppo. Leptic expansion and
Poisson solvers in thin domains, APS DFD, Long Beach, CA, 2010.
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A. Scotti and S. Sarkar, A
multiscale approach to boundary layer mixing, Ocean Sciences,
Portland, OR, 2010.
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A. Scotti Nonlinear internal waves in Massachusetts Bay: using a model to make sense of observations, Workshop on Large amplitude internal waves, Edinburgh, 2008.
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A. Scotti, M. Gasser i Rubinat and E. Balaras, LES of
pulsating
turbulent flows over smooth and wavy boundaries, Keynote
lecture, Turbulence and Interactions, St. Lucie, Martinique, June
2009.
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A. Scotti, Sand and waves: Oscillating turbulent boundary
layers over a movable bed, Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics, Trieste, March 2006.
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A. Scotti, ``The evolution of nonlinear internal
waves in Massachusetts Bay: observations and model results'',
2004 AGU-CGU Joint assembly, May 17-21, Montreal, CA.
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A. Scotti, ``Nonlinear internal waves in Massachusetts Bay'',
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics'', The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2002).
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Scotti, A. & Meneveau, "Turbulence parameterization using fractal
synthetic fields", presented at the 23rd General Assembly of the
European Geophysical Society (solicited paper),
Nice, France 20-24 April 1998.
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CHAPTERS in BOOKS (not reviewed): |
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A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & M. Fatica, ''Dynamic Smagorinsky
model on anisotropic grids'', Proceedings of the CTR Summer
Program 1996
(1996)
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IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS: |
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M. James and A. Scotti, Streaming in the turbulent boundary layer under progressive waves:
a DNS/LES approach, to be submitted to J. of Turb.
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A. Scotti, Viscous effects on the reflection of critical and near-critical internal waves
in the time domain, to be submitted to J. Fluid Mech.
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| S. Salon, A. Scotti and V. Armenio, The Stokes-Ekman layer at criticality, to be submitted to Phys. Fluids. |
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PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES |
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Prof. U. Piomelli
McLaughlin Hall, Room 217 130 Stuart St Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada Phone: +1-613-533-2758 Fax: +1-613-533-6489 Email: ugo@me.queensu.ca |
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Prof. S. Sarkar
Chair Office: 578 EBUII Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 Phone:+1-85-534-8243 Fax:+1-858-534-7599 Email: ssarkar@UCSD.Edu |
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Dr. Karl R. Helfrich
Senior Scientist Physical Oceanography Mailstop 21 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone:+1-508-289-2870 Fax: +1-508-457-2181 Email: khelfrich@whoi.edu
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