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Krzysztof Wilmanski
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Name
Krzysztof Wilmanski
Fields
Continuum mechanics
Born
March 1, 1940
Lodz, 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.
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.
