Abstract
William Devenport is Alumni Distinguished Professor and Crofton Professor of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech where he also serves as Director of the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel and founding Director of the Center for Research and Engineering in Aero/hydrodynamic Technology. His research is in the field of experimental aeroacoustics and the aerodynamics of turbulence and turbulent flows. His contributions include fundamental advances in areas such as roughness noise and control, turbulence ingestion noise, rotor aeroacoustics, leading and trailing edge noise and control, tip vortex and tip leakage vortex wakes and high Reynolds number boundary layers. Many of these efforts have been collaborative with, initiated by and/or inspired by Stewart Glegg as part a continuing 35-years partnership that includes the publication of the textbook “Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows”, now in its second edition.