Biography
Don Allen graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1981 and completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University in 1986. He joined Shell in 1987 and began work in offshore structures research with a focus on VIV suppression, which led to the discovery of the short fairing and tall helical strake. Don also led a joint industry program with MIT that resulted in the program SHEAR7 which has become the ...
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2018