Krzysztof Wilmanski
Krzysztof Wilmanski was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.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
- visiting professor at the University of Baghdad
- von Humboldt stipend
- fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- visiting professor at the University of Paderborn
- research fellow at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg
- the Technical University of Berlin
- the University of Essen
- head of the Research Group Continuum Mechanics in the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin
- professor of Mechanics at the University of Zielona Góra
- 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
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. : Continuous Media with Microstructure. Collection in Honor of Krzysztof Wilmanski, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010,.
