John Ffowcs Williams

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John Ffowcs Williams
FRSA FRAeS FInstP FREng
Born
Shôn Eirwen Ffowcs Williams

(1935-05-25)25 May 1935
Wales
Died12 December 2020(2020-12-12) (aged 85)
North Wales, Wales
Spouse
Anne Mason
​
(m. 1959)​
[1]
AwardsSir Frank Whittle Medal (2002)
Academic background
Education
Alma materUniversity of Southampton[1]
ThesisOn Noise from Convected Turbulence (1961)
Doctoral advisorElfyn Richards[2]
Academic work
DisciplineEngineering
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral students
Main interests
Notable ideasFfowcs Williams–Hawkings analogy
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

John "Shôn" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams FRSA FRAeS FInstP FREng[1][7][8][a] (1935–2020) was Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1996–2002).[9] He may be best known for his contributions to aeroacoustics, in particular for his work on Concorde. Together with one of his students, David Hawkings,[10] he introduced the far-field integration method in computational aeroacoustics based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy, known as the Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings analogy.[11]

Ffowcs was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions to the theory of jet noise, and other aspects of aeroacoustics and hydrodynamics.

  1. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference whoswho was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c John Ffowcs Williams at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Crighton, David George (1969). Wave motion and vibration induced by turbulent flow. spiral.imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/15756. OCLC 930650746. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.623253. Free access icon
  4. ^ Williams, J. E. F. (1961). "Noise from Convected Turbulence". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 33 (11): 1675. Bibcode:1961ASAJ...33Q1675W. doi:10.1121/1.1936718.
  5. ^ Furber, Stephen Byram (1979). Is the Weis-Fogh principle exploitable in turbomachines?. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.11472. OCLC 500446535. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.456071.
  6. ^ Furber, S. B.; Williams, J. E. F. (1979). "Is the Weis-Fogh principle exploitable in turbomachinery?". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 94 (3): 519. Bibcode:1979JFM....94..519F. doi:10.1017/S0022112079001166. S2CID 222345512.
  7. ^ "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  8. ^ Huang, Lixi; James Quinn, S.; Ellis, Peter D.M.; Ffowcs Williams, John E. (1995). "Biomechanics of snoring". Endeavour. 19 (3): 96–100. doi:10.1016/0160-9327(95)97493-R. ISSN 0160-9327. PMID 7493592.
  9. ^ "Emmanuel College Fellows". Archived from the original on 13 December 2012.
  10. ^ Hawkings, David Leonard (1968). Some forced wave problems in fluid mechanics. spiral.imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/15859. OCLC 894599420. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.623038. Free access icon
  11. ^ Williams, J. E. F.; Hawkings, D. L. (1969). "Sound Generation by Turbulence and Surfaces in Arbitrary Motion". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 264 (1151). Royal Society: 321–342. Bibcode:1969RSPTA.264..321W. doi:10.1098/rsta.1969.0031. ISSN 1364-503X. S2CID 19155680.


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