| F |
Explanation |
Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| f | molar fraction of comonomer | |
| F | copolymer composition | |
| F&DT | Fatigue and Damage Tolerance | |
| F&R | Function and Reliability | |
| F1 | Condition F1 - Transparency 2021 information: Specification and publication guidance | Office for Students (OfS) |
| F2 | Condition F2: Student transfer arrangements | Office for Students (OfS) |
| F2F |
Farm-to-Fork |
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| F3 | Condition F3: Provision of information to the OfS | Office for Students (OfS) |
| F4 | Condition F4: Provision of information to the [designated data body] DDB | Office for Students (OfS) |
| F2MC |
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite |
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| FA |
Fatty Acids |
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| FA |
Furfuryl Alcohol |
Precursor for furan resins |
| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
Washington DC - USA |
| FABW |
Find A Better Way |
Charity for clearance of active (land)mines |
| FAC |
Flow Assisted/Accelerated Corrosion |
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| FAC2T |
Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies |
Florida State University |
| FACE |
Free-Air Carbon Enrichment |
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| FACF |
Fibre Area Correction Factor |
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| FACTS |
Future Area Control Tools System |
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| FAETP |
Freshwater Aquatic Ecotoxicity Potential (EICF) |
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| FAI |
First Article Inspections |
Boeing requirement |
| FAIR | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable |
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| FAIR | First Article Inspection Reports | |
| FAIR |
Agriculture and Fisheries including Agro-Industry, Food Technologies, Forestry, Agriculure and Rural Development |
EU Framework Programme 4 (1994-1998) |
| FAL |
Final Assembly Line |
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| FALCON | Fourier Adaptive Learning and CONtrol | |
| FAME | Fatty Acid Methyl Esters | |
| FAMOUS |
Forensic Analysis Methodology Objective User Selection | |
| FANDANGO |
FAN Design And iNtegrity, GO |
UKRI project |
| FANTASTIC |
Future Advanced Nacelle Technology and Structural Intergration Concepts |
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| FANTASTICAL |
FAN Testing And STatistical Integrity CALibration |
UKRI project |
| FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organisation |
United Nations organisation at Rome - Italy |
| FAS |
Fluoro Alkyl Silane |
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| FAST |
Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures and Turbulence |
NREL/Germanischer Lloyd code for design of wind turbine blades |
| FAST |
Field Assisted Sintering Technology |
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| FASTA | Food Agriculture System Technology Accelerator |
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| FASTRAC |
Fast Remotely Activated/Actuated Channelling/Channels |
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| FAT |
Factory Acceptance Test |
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| FAUSST |
FAser Und Stahl STandard Verbinder |
Fibre and steel standardised joint/transition element between fibre-reinforced materials and steel. |
| FAW |
Fibre/Fabric Areal Weight |
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| FBC |
Faraday Battery Challenge |
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| FBC |
Fluidised Bed Combustion |
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| FBG |
Fibre Bragg Grating |
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| FBH |
Flat Bottom Hole |
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| FBP |
Filtered Back Projection |
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| FBR |
Fire retardant Bio-based/-degradable Recyclable | |
| FBS |
Fibre Bending System |
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| FBT |
Fokker Bond Tester |
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| F-BWM |
Fuzzy Best Worst Method |
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| FC | Fast Crystallising |
e.g. PEKK-FC |
| FC |
Field Cured (magnets) |
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| FCA | 2,5-furandicarboxaldehyde | |
| FCAS | Future Combat Air System | |
| FCCVD | Floating Catalytic Chemical Vapour Deposition |
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| FCG |
Focal Construct Geometry |
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| FCH |
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen joint undertaking |
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| FCM |
Finite Cell Method | |
| FCMA |
Filtered Canny Misalignment Analysis |
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| FCMF | Fiber and Composite Manufacturing Facility | UTK |
| FCMRH | Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub |
formerly CIMComp/at University of Nottingham |
| FCN | Fully-Connected Neural Networks | |
| FCP | Fuzzy C-Means | |
| FCP | Fibrous Cellulose Powder | |
| FCRIP |
Flooding and Coastal Resilience Innovation Project | |
| FCS |
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
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| FCV |
Fuel Cell Vehicles |
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| FD |
Fossil resource Depletion |
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| FD |
Freeze Dried |
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| FDA | Fibre Dominated Actuators | |
| FDAS |
Fibre Dimensional Analysis System |
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| FDC |
Fibre Direct Compounding injection moulding |
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| FDCA |
2,5-furandicarboxylic acid |
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| FDD |
Fault Detection and Diagnosis |
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| FDDF |
Fibre Diameter Distribution Factor |
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| F-DEMATEL |
fuzzy-DEcision-MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory |
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| FDI | Floating Debris Index | |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment | |
| FDIS | Formal Draft International Standard ballot stage |
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| FDM | Fatigue Damage Modelling | |
| FDM | Fused Deposition Modelling | |
| FDN | Fixed Dialling Number | |
| FDP | Fossil resource Depletion Potential | |
| FGR | Full depth reclamation | roadway rehabilitation |
| FDS | Fire Dynamic Simulation | |
| FDTD | Finite Difference Time Domain | |
| Fe | Iron | |
| FE | Field Emission (microscopy) | |
| FE | Freshwater Eutrophication | |
| FEA | Finite Element Analysis | |
| FEAST | Forum for Engineering, Applied Sciences and Technology |
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| FEC | Full Economic Costing | |
| FEC | Further Education College | |
| FECF | Forest Ecosystem Compensation Fund | |
| FEED | Front End Engineering Design | |
| FEF | Flow-Enhancing Fabric | |
| FEF | Fringing Electric Field | |
| FEG | Field Emission Gun | |
| FEG-SEM | Field Emission Gun - Scanning Electron Microscopy |
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| FEICA | Association of the European Adhesive & Sealant Industry ! |
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| FEM | Finite Element Modelling | |
| FEM | Fluctuation Electron Microscopy | |
| FEP | Freshwater Eutrophication Potential | |
| FEP | Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene copolymers | |
| FER | Flexible Epoxy Resin | |
| FESEM | Field Effect Scanning Electron Microscopy | |
| FESS | Flywheel Energy Storage Systems | |
| FET | Field-Effect Transistor | |
| FET | Flow-enhancing tow | |
| FET | Freshwater EcoToxicity | |
| FET | Future and Emerging Technologies |
European Commission Consultation |
| FETP | Freshwater EcoToxicity Potential | |
| FEW | Food-Energy-Water nexus | |
| FEWE | Food-Energy-Water-Emissions nexus |
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| FEWS | Fibre Evanescent Wave Sensor/Spectroscopy |
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| FF | Fossil Fuels | |
| FF | Furfural |
Precursor for furan resins |
| FF | Future Fund | |
| FFA | Free Fatty Acids | |
| FFC | Flexible Flat Cable | |
| FFC | Floor/Flow Flooding Chamber | |
| FFC | Flow Function Coefficient | |
| FFES | Far-Field ElectroSpinning | |
| FFF |
Fibionic Fiber Placement |
Fibionic (Götzens, Austria) |
| FFF | Fused Filament Fabrication | |
| FFL |
Fishing for Litter |
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| FFMC | Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite |
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| FFP | Fitness For Purpose | |
| FFRP | Flexible Fibre-Reinforced Pipe | |
| FFS | Fitness For Service | |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform | |
| FFU |
Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane |
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| FFV | Flexible Fuel Vehicles | |
| FFV | Fractional Free Volume | |
| FGCS | Functionally Graded Cylindrical Shells |
|
| FGF | Fused Granulate (pellet) Fabrication |
|
| FG-GPLRC |
Functionally Graded Graphene Platelets Reinforced Composite |
|
| FGM | Functionally Graded Material | |
| FGP | Functionally Graded Porous | |
| FGPM | Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Material |
|
| FGW | Feature Guided Waves | |
| FGW | First Great Western | |
| FH | Flight Hours | |
| FHE | Flexible Hybrid Electronics | |
| FIAS | Front Impacting Absorbing Structure |
|
| FIB | Focussed Ion-Beam microscope | |
| FIB | Function in the Box | |
| FiberSIM |
Suite of software for composite design and manufacturing |
Vistagy Inc |
| FIBRALSPEC |
Functionalized Innovative Carbon Fibers Developed from Novel Precursors with Cost Efficiency and Tailored Properties |
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) FP7 project, G |
| FIBRE |
Faserinstitut Bremen e.V. |
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| FIBRENAMICS |
The New World of Fibre-Based Materials |
Raul Fangueiro at University of Minho |
| FibStruct |
Advanced composite construction materials from non-wood fibres |
LINK CIMNFC LK0811 |
| FIDIC |
The International Federation of Consulting Engineers |
|
| FIM |
Film Insert Moulding |
|
| FIND |
Future Innovation in Non-Destructive Evaluation | University of Bristol EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training |
| FiPIF | Finnish Plastics Industry Federation | |
| FIRES |
Future Industrial Resource Efficient Strategy |
FIRES ‘Absolute Zero’ report: road map for UK Industry and Policy to meeting 2050 emissions targets |
| FIRPA |
Finnish Additive Manufacturing [Rapid Prototyping!] Association | |
| fiRST |
Film Infusion Reuseable Silicone Technology |
Alan Harper Composites |
| FIS | Family Intervention Service | |
| FISC | Foundation Industries Sustainability Consortium |
|
| FISH | Fluorescence in-situ Hybridisation | |
| FishBAC | FishBone Active Camber | |
| FISHSHAPED |
Fainting-Infant-Shock-Head-Stroke-Heart-Asphyxia-Poisoning-Epilepsy-Diabetic |
Emergency First Aid on unconciousness |
| FISP |
Façade Inspection Safety Program |
|
| FI-STAR |
Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research |
|
| FIT |
Feed-In Tariffs |
|
| FIT |
Flexible Initiation Test |
|
| FITNESs | Fibre Tessili Naturali per l'Edilizia Sostenibile |
Natural Textile Fibers for Sustainble Building |
| FIVE | Fire In VEhicles conference | |
| FIVE |
Foundation Industries Ventures | |
| FKP | Feather Keratin Polymers | |
| FL | Family Learners | |
| FL | Fuzzy Logic | |
| FLAG |
Forest, Land and Agriculture | Science-Based Tergets Initiative |
| FLARE |
Flying Laboratory for Aeronautical REsearch |
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| FlAsH |
Fluorescein bi-Arsenical Hairpin-binding |
|
| FLAVA |
Flexible Lightweight Architectures for Vehicle Applications |
|
| FLAVIIR |
Flapless Aerial Vehicle Integrated Interdisciplinary Research |
BAE Systems Engineering/EPSRC funded research project |
| FLC |
Fuzzy Logic Controller |
|
| FLD |
Forming Limit Diagram |
|
| FLDA | 9,9-din-octylfluorene-2,7-dicarboxaldehyde |
|
| FLDC |
Fisher Linear Discriminant Classifier |
|
| FLDF |
Fibre Length Distribution Factor |
|
| FLF |
Future Leaders Fellowships |
UKRI |
| FLG |
Few-Layer Graphene |
|
| FLIM |
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy |
|
| FLIP |
Fluid Implicit Particle |
|
| FLM |
Fused Layer Modelling |
|
| FLOW |
FLoating Offshore Wind |
|
| FLOWER |
Flax composites, LOW weight, End of life and Recycling |
Interreg France Channel|Manche England project |
| FLPP |
Future Launchers Preparatory Program |
|
| FLRAA | Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft | |
| FLSCA | Fluorescently-Labelled Silane Coupling Agent |
|
| FLW | Food Loss and Waste | |
| FM-CEACS |
Fabrication Methods for Crash Energy Absorbing Composite Structures |
University of Nottingham |
| FMC | Flexibe Matrix Composites | |
| FMC | Full Matrix Capture | |
| FMEA | Failure Modes and Effects Analysis | |
| FMECA | Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis |
|
| FMEL | Fibre-Metal-Elastomer Laminates | |
| FMFO | Fuzzy Multi-Footprint Optimisation | |
| FMI | Functional Mock-up Interface | |
| FML | Fibre-reinforced Metal Laminates | |
| FMLC |
Fibre Metal Laminates Centre of Competence | |
| FMOLS | Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares |
|
| FMPV | Fast Missile Patrol Vessel | |
| FMR | Ferro Magnetic Resonance | |
| FMR |
Functional Magnetic Resonance imageing |
|
| FMS | [US] Foreign Military Sales | |
| FMU | Fuel Management Unit | |
| FN | False Negative | |
| FNIS | Fuzzy Negative-Ideal Solution | |
| FNM | Floating Node Method | |
| FNO | False Negative number of Objects | |
| FNSAA |
Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture | |
| FO | Fibre Optics | |
| FO | Fluidic Origami | |
| FOA | Funding Opportunity Announcement | |
| FOAF | Future of the Aircraft Factory | |
| FOD | Foreign Object Damage | |
| FOD | Foreign Object Debris | |
| FODDAS |
Fibre Optic Damage Detection and Assessment Systems | |
| FODF |
Fibre Orientation Distribution Factor |
|
| FOE | Friends of the Earth | Switzerland |
| FOEFL |
Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape | Switzerland |
| FOG | Fats, Oils and Greases | |
| FOGG |
Fats, Oil, Grit and Grease (in sewage treatment plants) | |
| FOGV | Fan Outlet Guide Vane | |
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act | |
| FOM | Fluctuation Optical Microscopy | |
| FOMO | Fear Of Missing Out | |
| FOS | Fibre Optic Sensors | |
| FOTA | Freeware Over-The-Air | |
| FOTS | Tricholoro (perFluoroOctyl) Silane | |
| FOV | Field of View | |
| FOWT | Floating Offshore Wind Turbines | |
| FP | False Positive | |
| FP | Framework Programme |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD |
| FP | Frontal Polymerisation | |
| FP5 |
Fifth Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 1998 to 2002 |
| FP6 |
Sixth Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 2002 to 2006 |
| FP7 |
Seventh Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 2007 to 2013 |
| FPA |
Fan Propulsor Assembly |
|
| FPA |
Fibre
Processing Aid |
|
| FPA |
Fluorescent Protein Activation |
|
| FPA |
Focal Plane Array |
|
| FPALM |
Fluorescent PhotoActivated Localisation Activation Microscopy |
|
| FPC |
Far/Flat Platform Chassis |
Far-UK |
| FPCM |
International Conference [series] on Flow Processes in Composite Materials |
On-line archive |
| FPDVA |
Floating Pendulum Dynamic Vibration Absorption |
|
| FPE |
FlexPly End-effector |
Robotic pick-and-place |
| FPI |
Fast Probability Integrator |
|
| F-PIBO | novel silane telomer |
free radical terpolymer of dodecafluoroheptyl methacrylate (DFMA)/isobornyl methacrylate (IBOMA)/3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (KH-590) |
| FPICT |
Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies |
|
| FPIS |
Fuzzy Positive-Ideal Solution |
|
| FPKS |
Flow Pattern Permeability Space |
|
| FPM |
FluidFM® probe microscopy |
|
| FPM |
Finite Pointset Method |
CFD tool from Fraunhofer
Institute for Industrial Mathematics |
| FPM |
Fluorinated M-group rubbers |
|
| FPO |
False Positive number of Objects |
number of false alarms |
| FPP |
Fibre Patch Placement |
|
| FPP |
Fibre Patch Preforming |
EADS IW/Oxeon AB/Manz Automation development |
| FPP |
Fluid Pressure Penetration |
|
| FPP |
Functional Paper Products |
|
| FPPP |
Faraday Plastics and Polymer Partnership |
formerly Faraday Plastics Partnership |
| FPS |
Finite Plate Spline |
|
| FPS |
Finite PointSet Method |
|
| FPS |
Frames per Second |
|
| FPSH |
First-order Perturbation-based Stochastic Homogenisation |
|
| FPSO |
Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (in oil exploitation) |
|
| FPTS |
Trichloro (3,3,3-triFluoro Propyl) Silane |
|
| FPV |
Floating PhotoVoltaics | |
| FPZ |
Fracture Process Zone |
|
| FR |
Fire Retardant |
|
| FRAAL |
(glass) Fibre Reinforced Aluminium Alloy Laminates | |
| FRAP |
Ferric-ion Reducing Antioxidant Parameter |
|
| FRAP |
Fluorescence recovery after
photobleaching |
|
| FRCP |
Fibre Reinforced Composite Parts |
|
| FRD |
Full Raw Data |
|
| FREI |
Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators |
|
| FRESCO |
Fibre REinforced polymer–Steel–Concrete transition structures for Offshore wind turbines |
University of Southampton Supergen project |
| FRET | Forster Resonance Energy Transfer | |
| FRF | Frequency Response Function | |
| FROMP | Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerisation |
|
| FRP | Fibre Reinforced Plastic | |
| FRP | free radical polymerization | |
| FRS | Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete | |
| FRTP | Fibre Reinforced ThermoPlastic | |
| FRV | Fishing Research Vessel | |
| FS | Factor of Safety | FS = MS + 1 |
| FSAM | Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing | |
| FSAPDS | Fin Stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot |
|
| FSD | Fore-Scattered Detectors | |
| FSDT | First-order Shear Deformation Theory | |
| FSFEM | FFT-based Spectral Finite Element Method | |
| FSP | Fragment Simulating Projectiles | |
| FSP | Friction Stir Processing | |
| FSPC | Free Standing Post-Cure | |
| FSPCM | Form-Stable Phase Change Materials | |
| FSI | Fluid-Structure Interaction | |
| FSS | Frequency Selective Surfaces | |
| FSSW | Friction Stir Spot Welding | |
| FST | Flame, Smoke and Toxicity requirements | |
| FSTA | Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft |
Modified Airbus A330 for the Royal Air Force |
| FSW | Feet of SeaWater | |
| FSW |
Friction Stir Welding |
|
| FT |
Flexible Tooling |
|
| FT |
Fourier Transform |
|
| FTA |
Fast Track to Approval | |
| FTE | Fixed Trailing Edge |
GKN Aerospace product for Airbus Wing of Tomorrow |
| FTE | Full Time Equivalent | |
| FTFCS | Fault Tolerant Flight Control System | |
| FTIR | Fourier Transform Infra Red spectroscopy | |
| FTOP | Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal | |
| FTP | Fire Test Procedures (SOLAS) | |
| FTT | Fibre Torsion Tester | |
| FTT | Financial Transaction Tax | |
| FTT | [submarine] Forward Tilt Tank | |
| FTY | First Time Yield | |
| FUBACOMP |
Full barrel composites |
Dassault Aviation in conjunction with BAE Systems |
| FVC | Fibre Volume Content | |
| FVCOM | Finite Volume Ocean Coastal Model | |
| FVF | Fibre Volume Fraction | |
| FVM | Finite Volume Method | |
| FW | Filament winding | |
| FWA | Fair Work Agency | |
| FWC | Full Waveform Capture | |
| FWCF | Filament Wound Carbon Fibre | |
| FWH | Ffowcs Williams - Hawkings |
acoustic analogy method |
| FWHM | Full Width at Half Maximum | |
| FWMM | Four Wave Mixing Microscopy | |