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Name
  
Krzysztof Wilmanski


Fields
  
Continuum mechanics

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Born
  
March 1, 1940Lodz, Poland (
1940-03-01
)

Alma mater
  
Technical University of Lodz

Notable awards
  
M. T. Huber Prize, Lady Davis Prize

Died
  
August 26, 2012, Berlin, Germany

Education
  
Lodz University of Technology

Books
  
Thermomechanics of Continua

Krzysztof Wilmanski


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

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Main research fields

  • axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics,
  • mixture theory,
  • 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 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 (Germany, 1984-1985)
  • visiting professor at the University of Paderborn (Germany, 1986–87)
  • research fellow at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany, 1987–90)
  • the Technical University of Berlin (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 in Berlin (Germany, 1996-2005)
  • professor of Mechanics at the University of Zielona Góra (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 list)

    Selected books

  • Wilmanski, K.: Thermomechanics of Continua, Springer, Berlin, N.Y., 1998, ISBN 978-3540641414.
  • Wilmanski, K.: Continuum Thermodynamics, Part I: Foundations, Wold Scientific, Singapore, 2008, ISBN 978-981-283-556-7.
  • Albers, B. (ed.): Continuous Media with Microstructure. Collection in Honor of Krzysztof Wilmanski, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11444-1.

    • References

    Krzysztof Wilmanski Wikipedia
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