Krzysztof Wilmanski (March 1, 1940 – August 26, 2012) was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of

continuum mechanics Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such m ...

and

thermodynamics Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of the ...

Main research fields

* axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics, *

mixture theory Mixture theory is used to model multiphase systems using the principles of continuum mechanics generalised to several interpenetrable continua. The basic assumption is that, at any instant of time, all phases are present at every material point, an ...

, * phase transformations in solids, * non-newtonian fluids, * acoustic waves in continua, * crystal plasticity and the evolution of textures, * thermodynamics of porous materials.

Visiting posts

* postgraduate at the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

in Baltimore (USA, 1969–70) * visiting professor at the University of Baghdad (Iraq, 1972–74) * von Humboldt stipend (Germany, 1979) * fellow at

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (german: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled ...

(Germany, 1984-1985) * visiting professor at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

(Germany, 1986–87) * research fellow at the

Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg The Hamburg University of Technology (in German Technische Universität Hamburg, abbreviated TUHH (HH as acronym of Hamburg state) or TU Hamburg) is a research university in Germany. The university was founded in 1978 and in 1982/83 lecturing fol ...

(Germany, 1987–90) * the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

(Germany, 1991–92) * the University of Essen (Germany, 1992-1996) * head of the Research Group Continuum Mechanics in the

Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics The Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), is a part of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. and a member of the Leibniz Association. Based in Berlin’s district Mitte, the institute's research activities involve a ...

in Berlin (Germany, 1996-2005) * professor of Mechanics at the

University of Zielona Góra The University of Zielona Góra was founded on 1 September 2001 as a result of a merger between Zielona Góra's Pedagogical University, which was founded in 1971 and Technical University, which was founded in 1965. It is one of the newer univ ...

(Poland, 2005-2010) * member of the faculty of the ROSE School, Centre for Post-Graduate Training and Research in Pavia, Italy

Main original contributions to research

* axiomatic foundations of continuum thermodynamics * thermodynamics of Maxwellian heat conducting fluids * thermodynamics of poroelastic materials under large deformations * modelling of porous materials with the balance equation of porosity (publication listhttp://www.mech-wilmanski.de/List2012.pdf )

Selected books

* Wilmanski, K.: Thermomechanics of Continua, Springer, Berlin, N.Y., 1998, . * Wilmanski, K.: Continuum Thermodynamics, Part I: Foundations, World Scientific, Singapore, 2008, . * Albers, B. (ed.): Continuous Media with Microstructure. Collection in Honor of Krzysztof Wilmanski, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, .

References

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