Dr. David C. Wilcox, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He did his undergraduate studies from 1963 to 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 1966 to 1967, he was employed by the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Division in Long Beach, California, and began his professional career under the guidance of the late A. M. O. Smith. His experience with McDonnell Douglas focused on subsonic and transonic flow calculations. From 1967 to 1970, he attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating with a Ph.D. in Aeronautics. In 1970 he joined TRW Systems, Inc. in Redondo Beach, California, where he performed studies of both high- and low-speed fluid-mechanical and heat-transfer problems, such as turbulent hypersonic flow and thermal radiation from a flame. From 1972 to 1973, he was a staff scientist for Applied Theory, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. He participated in many research efforts involving numerical computation and analysis of fluid flows such as separated turbulent flow, transitional flow and hypersonic plume-body interaction.

In 1973, he founded DCW Industries, Inc., a La Canada, California firm engaged in engineering research, software development and publishing, for which he is currently the President. He has taught several fluid mechanics and applied mathematics courses at the University of Southern California and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Wilcox has numerous publications on turbulence modeling, computational fluid dynamics, boundary-layer separation, boundary-layer transition, thermal radiation, and rapidly rotating fluids. His scientific book publications include graduate-level texts entitled Turbulence Modeling for CFD and Perturbation Methods in the Computer Age. He has also published a political/philosophical manuscript entitled Cliches of Liberalism: Governing Through Insult, Confusion and Sound Bites. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and has served as an Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal.

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