Civil Engineering
Marco Giometto focuses on the fundamentals of turbulence, and its impact on the transport of mass, energy, and momentum in engineering and environmental systems.
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia (2016)
- Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University (2017)
- Assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics (2018 – present)
- Amazon Visiting Academic, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Prime Air (2020 — present)
- Senior Research Scientist, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Prime Air (2018 — 2020)
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society
- American Physical Society
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2017)
- EDME Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Mechanics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2016)
- Best Presentation Award, 9th International Conference on Urban Climate, 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment (2016)
- Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union General Assembly Conference (2014)
- Lozano-Duran A., Giometto M. G., Park G. I., and Moin P. (2020) Non-equilibrium three-dimensional boundary layers at moderate Reynolds numbers. In J. Fluid Mech., 883, A20.
- Momen M.y, Parlange M. B., Giometto M. G. (2021) Scrambling and reorientation of classical atmospheric boundary layer turbulence in hurricane winds. In Geophys. Res. Letters., 48, e2020GL091695.
- Giacomini B., Giometto M. G. (2021) On the suitability of second-order accurate finite volume solvers for the simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow. In Geophys. Mod. Dev., 14, 1409–1426.
- Comola F., Giometto M. G., Parlange M. B., and Lehning M. (2019) Scale analysis of snowfall deposition over Gaussian hills using large eddy simulation and Lagrangian stochastic particle-tracking. In J. Geophys. Res., 124,7951–7974.
- Schmid M. F., Lawrence G., and Parlange M. B., and Giometto M. G. (2019) Volume averaging for urban canopies. In Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 173, 349–372.
- Giometto M. G., Katul G. G., Fang J., and Parlange M. B. (2017) Direct numerical simulation of slope flows up to Grashof number Gr = 211. In J. Fluid Mech., 829, 589–620.
- Giometto M. G., Christen A., Egli P. E., Schmid M. F., Tooke R., Coops N. C., and Parlange M. B. (2017) Effects of urban trees on mean wind, turbulence and momentum exchange within and above a realistic urban canopy. In Adv. Water Resour., 106, 154–168.
- Giometto M. G., Christen A., Meneveau C., Fang J., Krafczyk M., and Parlange M. B. (2016) Spatial characteristics of roughness sublayer mean flow and turbulence over a realistic urban surface. In Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 160, 425–452.