Krzysztof Wilmanski Explained

Krzysztof Wilmanski
Birth Date:	1 March 1940
Birth Place:	Łódź, Poland
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Fields:	Continuum mechanics
Alma Mater:	Technical University of Łódź
Awards:	M. T. Huber Prize, Lady Davis Prize

Krzysztof Wilmanski (March 1, 1940  - August 26, 2012) was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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 Hamburg University of Technology (Germany, 1987–90)
• the Technische Universität 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^[5] in Berlin (Germany, 1996-2005)
• professor of Mechanics at the University of Zielona Góra (Poland, 2005-2010)
• member of the faculty^[6] 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^[7])

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, .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Add to Timeline . KRZYSZTOF WILMAŃSKI : Nekrologi - Nekrologi - Gazeta Lubuska . Nekrologi . 2012-09-04.
2. Web site: Krzysztof Wilmański, Warszawa, 01.09.2012 - kondolencje . pl . Nekrologi.wyborcza.pl . 2012-02-16 . 2012-09-04.
3. Web site: Nachruf für Prof. Dr.-Ing. Krzysztof Wilmanski . TU Berlin . 2012-09-04.
4. Web site: ISIMM-forum: Krzysztof Wilmanski and CMwM2015 . TU Darmstadt . 2014-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140522143613/http://www.isimmforum.tu-darmstadt.de/ags/analysis/wg-partial-differential-equations-and-applications/isimm.html . 2014-05-22 . dead .
5. Web site: Weierstrass Institute . Wias-berlin.de . 2012-09-04.
6. Web site: Prof. Krzysztof Wilmanski - Rose School . Roseschool.it . 2012-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225085650/http://www.roseschool.it/teachers/show/id/958 . 2014-02-25 . dead .
7. Web site: Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Wilmański - List of Publications . 2024-06-23.