John Ffowcs Williams
British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 85
John "Shôn" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams was Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1996-2002). He may be best known for his contributions to aeroacoustics, in particular for his work on Concorde.
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Together with one of his students, David Hawkings, he introduced the far-field integration method in computational aeroacoustics based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy, known as the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings analogy.
