Simone Marras
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engr
Education
Ph.D. ; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya ; Computational fluid dynamics ; 2012

Ph.D. ; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya ; Computational Fluid Dynamics ; 2008

M.S. ; Politcnico di Milano ; Aerospace Engineering ; 2005

Experience
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Technical Committee Member, September 2018 -
2025 Fall Courses
ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES

ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

IE 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A

Past Courses
ME 304: FLUID MECHANICS

ME 407: HEAT TRANSFER

ME 618: SELECTED TOPICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ME 618: ST: TURBULENT FLOW

ME 794: MECHANICAL COLLOQUIUM

Journal Article
Yassine 2 Tissaoui, James Kelly, Simone Marras. 2024. "Efficient spectral element method for the Euler equations on unbounded domains." Applied Mathematics and Computation , vol. 487 , pp. 129080.

Simone Marras, Michal A Kopera, Emil M Constantinescu, Jenny Suckale, Francis X Giraldo. 2018. "A residual-based shock capturing scheme for the continuous/discontinuous spectral element solution of the 2D shallow water equations." Advances in Water Resources , vol. 114 , pp. 45--63.

James F Kelly, Simone Marras, Xiaofeng Zhao, Robert J McGough. 2018. "Linear and nonlinear ultrasound simulations using the discontinuous Galerkin method." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , vol. 143 , no. 4 , pp. 2438--2448.

Simone Marras, James F Kelly, Margarida Moragues, M\"uller, Andreas, Michal A Kopera, V\'azquez, Mariano, Francis X Giraldo, Guillaume Houzeaux, Oriol Jorba. 2016. "A review of element-based Galerkin methods for numerical weather prediction: Finite elements, spectral elements, and discontinuous Galerkin." Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering , vol. 23 , no. 4 , pp. 673--722.

Stephen R Guimond, Jon M Reisner, Simone Marras, Francis X Giraldo. 2016. "The impacts of dry dynamic cores on asymmetric hurricane intensification." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , vol. 73 , no. 12 , pp. 4661--4684.

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Conference Proceeding
"Nonlinear ultrasound simulations using a time-explicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method"
2017.

"A Massive Parallel Variational Multiscale FEM Scheme Applied to Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamics"
2010.

"An unstructured CFD approach for numerical weather prediction"
2010.

"Application of a Galerkin finite element scheme to atmospheric buoyant and gravity driven flows"
2010.

"Variational multiscale method for compressible flows"
2010.

Chapter
Simone Marras, M\"uller, Andreas, Francis X Giraldo. "Physics-based stabilization of spectral elements for the 3d Euler equations of moist atmospheric convection." pp. 355--363. Springer, Cham, 2015.

Professional
NHERI: Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
Member , 2019