Dr. Alberto D. Scotti

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
College of Arts and Sciences
Institute of Marine Sciences
Research Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 1999
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Mailing Address

Department of Marine Sciences
12-7 Venable Hall, CB#3300
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3300
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (919) 962-9454
Fax: (919) 962-1254
ascotti@unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/~ascotti

Qualifications

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
M.S., Johns Hopkins University, Mechanical Engineering, 1995.
Laurea, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Physics, 1992.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Fluid Dynamics, Physical Oceanography.

Additional Terms:

Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Physical Oceanography.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Italian: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Functional, None, Basic)

Memberships

American Geophysical Union

Honors and Awards

1997-1999, Post Doctoral Scholarhsip, Johnson Foundation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography
1992-1994, Scholarship, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian Research Counsel), Johns Hopkins University, Fluid dynamics
Premio A. Frigerio, Societa' Italiana di Fisica, Physics

Previous Positions

1997-1999, Post Doctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography
1992-1997, Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Funding Received

  • National Science Foundation: Numerical investigation of wave boundary layer over rippled bed with application to sediment transport., $131,000, Oct 1, 1999 to Sep 31, 2002.
  • National Science Foundation: Biocomplexity: Marine benthic population dynamics., $142,600, 9/1/2000 to 8/30/2005.
  • Office of Naval Research: Atmospheric forcing and its spatial variability over the Sea of Japan., $107,742, 10/1/1999 to 31/12/2000.
  • Office of Naval Research: Plankton distribution in internal waves in Massachusetts Bay, $18,771, 1/1/2001 to 12/31/2002.
  • Office of Naval Research: atmospheric forcing and its spatial variability over the Sea of Japan, $20,542, 1/1/2001 to 12/31/2002.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): MRI:A Distributed, High-Performance Computing System for the Environmental Sciences, to .

Publications

  • A. Scotti and U. Piomelli, Turbulence models in pulsating flows, AIAA Journal, 40(3), 2002
  • J.A. Colosi, J,F, Lynch, R. C. Bearsley, G. Gawarkiewicz, A. Scotti and C-S Chiu, Observations of nonlinear internal waves on the outer New England continental shelf during the summer shelfbreak PRIMER study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 (C5), 9587-9601., 2001
  • A. Scotti and U. Piomelli, Numerical simulation of pulsating turbulent channel flow, Physics of Fluids, 13(5), 1367-1384, 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
  • U. Piomelli, A. Scotti and E. Balaras, Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows, from desktop to supercomputer, Vector and Parallel Processing- VECPAR2000, 2000
  • A. Scotti and C. Meneveau, A fractal model for Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows, Physica D, 127, 198-232, 1999
  • A. Scotti and C. Meneveau, Fractal model for coarse-grained partial differential equations, Physical Review Letters, 78, 867-870, 1997
  • A. Scotti, C. Meneveau and M. Fatica, Dynamic Smagorinsly model on anisotropic grids, Physics of Fluids, 9, 1856-1858, 1997
  • T. Osborn and A. Scotti, The effect of turbulence on predator-prey contact rates: where do we go from here?, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 139, 302-304, 1996
  • A. Scotti, C. Meneveau and S. Saddoughi, Fractal dimension of velocity signals in high Reynolds number hydrodynamic turbulence, Physical Review E, 51, 5594-5608, 1995
  • A. Scotti, C. Meneveau and D. K. Lilly, Generalized Smagorinsky model for anisotropic grids, Physics of Fluids A, 5, 2306-2308, 1993

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