Krzysztof Wilmanski

Krzysztof Wilmanski (March 1, 1940 – August 26, 2012) 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 (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

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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.