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Owen Williams is a Research Associate Professor in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. His research areas focus on turbulent, unsteady separated turbulent flows and their impact on vehicle design and environmental processes related to energy generation. He has extensively worked on enhancing the understanding of the structure and scaling of compressible turbulence at hypersonic speeds. Currently, his research interests include non-equilibrium turbulent flow separation, unsteady dynamics, and the analysis of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers and shock interactions. Additionally, he studies hydrodynamics of rotating foils for renewable power generation. Owen was born and educated in Toronto, Canada, before moving to England to complete his Master’s in Engineering at Imperial College, London. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, where he experimentally examined the effects of compressibility on stratification in wall-bounded turbulence. Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland, working on computational studies of turbulent scaling theories in hypersonic flows and shock boundary layer interactions.
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