PUBLICATIONS
(Boldface titles denote invited contributions)

CHAPTERS in BOOKS (refereed):

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).

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).

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).

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

A. Scotti and B. White, Is Horizontal Convection really ``non-turbulent''?, G. Res. Lett., In press, 2011.

E. Santilli and A. Scotti, An efficient nethod for solving elliptic equations on highly anisotropic grids, J. Comp. Phys., 230(23), 8342-8359 , 2011.

A. Scotti, Inviscid critical and near-critical reflection of internal waves in the time domain, J. Fluid Mech., 674, 464-488, 2011

R. Grimshaw, K. Helfrich and A. Scotti, Large amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean, Nonlinear Proc. Geophys., 18, 653-655, 2010.

A. Scotti, Large Eddy Simulation in the ocean, Int. J. Comp. Fluid Dyn. 24(10), 393-406, 2010 (DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2010.522527).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Scotti, A. and J. Pineda, ``Plankton accumulation and transport in propagating nonlinear internal fronts,'' J. Marine Res., 65, 1-30, 2007.

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.

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.

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.

A. Scotti, ``DNS of turbulent channel flows with boundary roughened with virtual sandpaper'', Phys. Fluids, 18(3), 031701, 2006.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Y-S Chang and A. Scotti, ``Entrainment and suspension of sediments into a turbulent flow over ripples'', Journal of Turbulence, 4, 019, 2003.

A. Scotti & U. Piomelli "Turbulence models in pulsating flows", AIAA Journal, 40(3) 537-544 (2002).

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).

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).

A. Scotti & U. Piomelli , "Numerical simulation of pulsating turbulent channel flow", Physics of Fluids, 13(5), 1367-1384 (2001).

A. Scotti & C. Meneveau, "A fractal model for Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows", Physica D, 127, 192-232 (1999).

A. Scotti & C. Meneveau, ''Fractal model for coarse-grained partial differential equations'', Phys. Rev. Let., 78, 867-870 (1997).

A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & M. Fatica, ''Dynamic Smagorinsky model on anisotropic grids'', Phys. Fluid, 9, 1856-1858 (1997).

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).

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).

A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & D. K. Lilly, ``Generalized Smagorinsky model for anisotropic grids'', Phys. Fluids A, 5, 2306-2308 (1993).

INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS

A. Scotti, Hydrostatic ma non troppo. Leptic expansion and Poisson solvers in thin domains, APS DFD, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

A. Scotti and S. Sarkar, A multiscale approach to boundary layer mixing, Ocean Sciences, Portland, OR, 2010.

A. Scotti Nonlinear internal waves in Massachusetts Bay: using a model to make sense of observations, Workshop on Large amplitude internal waves, Edinburgh, 2008.

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.

A. Scotti, Sand and waves: Oscillating turbulent boundary layers over a movable bed, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, March 2006.

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.

A. Scotti, ``Nonlinear internal waves in Massachusetts Bay'', Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics'', The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2002).

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.

CHAPTERS in BOOKS (not reviewed):

A. Scotti, C. Meneveau & M. Fatica, ''Dynamic Smagorinsky model on anisotropic grids'', Proceedings of the CTR Summer Program 1996 (1996)

IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS:

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.

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.

S. Salon, A. Scotti and V. Armenio, The Stokes-Ekman layer at criticality, to be submitted to Phys. Fluids.