David Williams

David M. Williams is an assistant professor at The Pennsylvania State University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He came to Penn State from the Flight Sciences division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Research and Technology, where he worked for several years as a computational fluid dynamics engineer. Williams received his M.S. and Ph. D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He holds a B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has made significant advances in the design of numerical algorithms for computational fluid dynamic simulations. Currently, his research focuses on employing high-order Finite Element schemes to more accurately predict unsteady flows.