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
(publication list )
 * 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, ISBN 978-3540641414.
 * Wilmanski, K.: Continuum Thermodynamics, Part I: Foundations, World 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.