Bruno Eckhardt

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Bruno Eckhardt (born March 25, 1960 in Rockenhausen ; † August 7, 2019 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life and work

Bruno Eckhardt attended the Ginsweiler elementary school and the Lauterecken grammar school . After graduating from high school in 1977, he began studying physics , mathematics and computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern . After two years (1981–1983) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , USA , he received his doctorate in 1986 from the University of Bremen . From 1986 to 1988 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Solid State Research at the Jülich nuclear research facility and until 1992 research assistant at the University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in theoretical physics with Siegfried Großmann in 1992 . From 1992 to 1996 he was Professor of Physics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and from 1996 until his death in 2019 he held a chair in Theoretical Physics at the Philipps University of Marburg.

Eckhardt lived in Marburg , leaving behind his wife and three daughters.

Research priorities

Eckhardt worked in the field of nonlinear dynamics , which is often referred to as chaos research . In his focus on quantum chaos and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, he developed numerical simulations that opened up new approaches to these areas. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2002.

His membership in the Senate and the Main Committee of the DFG was extended for a further three years in 2011.

As a scientist, he has played a leading role in numerous international scientific conferences, including:

Professional background

Publications

Monographs:

Articles (selection):

  • Fractal properties of scattering singularities, Journal of Physics A, Volume 20, 1987, p. 5971
  • Irregular scattering, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Volume 33, 1988, pp. 89-98
  • Quantum mechanics of classically non-integrable systems, Physics Reports, Volume 163, 1988, pp. 205-297
  • with G. Hose, E. Pollak: Quantum mechanics of a classically chaotic system: Observations on scars, periodic orbits, and vibrational adiabaticity, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 39, 1989, p. 3776
  • with Predrag Cvitanović : Periodic-orbit quantization of chaotic systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 63, 1989, pp. 823-826
  • with P. Cvitanovic: Periodic orbit expansions for classical smooth flows, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Volume 24, 1991, p. L237
  • with A. Schmiegel: Fractal stability border in plane Couette flow, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 79, 1997, p. 5250
  • with H. Faisst: Traveling waves in pipe flow, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 91, 2003, p. 224502
  • with H. Faisst: Sensitive dependence on initial conditions in transition to turbulence in pipe, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 504, 2004, pp. 343-352
  • with B. Hof u. a .: Experimental observation of nonlinear traveling waves in turbulent pipe flow, Science, Volume 305, 2004, pp. 1594-1598
  • with Steven H. Strogatz , Daniel M. Abrams, Allan McRobie, Edward Ott : Theoretical mechanics: Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge. In: Nature. 438, 2005, pp. 43-44, doi: 10.1038 / 438043a .
  • with B. Hof, J. Westerweel, TMSchneider: Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows , Nature, Volume 443, 2006, pp. 59-62
  • with j. D. Dkufca, James A. Yorke : Edge of chaos in a parallel shear flow, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 96, 2006, p. 174101
  • with TMSchneider, B. Hof, J. Westerweel: Turbulence transition in pipe flow, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 39, 2007, pp. 447-468
  • with TM Schneider, JA Yorke: Turbulence transition and the edge of chaos in pipe flow, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 99, 2007, p. 034502
  • with E. Ott, SH Strogatz, DM Abrams, A. McRobie: Modeling walker synchronization on the Millennium Bridge, Phys. Rev. E, Volume 75, 2007, p. 021110

Editorships:

Web links

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Renate Schmidt: We mourn Prof. Dr. Bruno Eckhardt. University of Marburg, Department of Physics, August 12, 2019, archived from the original on August 15, 2019 ; accessed on August 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae
  3. ^ Bruno Eckhardt on the website of the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ Marburg physicist Eckhardt for another three years on the most important political body of the German Research Foundation
  5. ^ University of Marburg: Website of the Eckhardt working group
  6. ↑ IOPscience: Nonlinearity
  7. ^ Progress in Nonlinear Science
  8. ↑ Wiley: Physical sheets
  9. ↑ Physical Review E .: About
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockenhausen
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2019
Place of death Frankfurt am Main