Christof Eck

Christof Eck (born April 24, 1968 , † September 14, 2011 ) was a German mathematician who dealt with applied analysis and numerical mathematics.

Eck studied in Konstanz and Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1996 under Wolfgang Wendland (* 1936) at the University of Stuttgart (existence and regularity of solutions for contact problems with friction). From 1998 he was assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , where he completed his habilitation in 2004 ( A Two-Scale Phase Field Model for Liquid-Solid Phase Transitions of Binary Mixtures with Dendritic Microstructure ). In 2007 he became professor at Bielefeld University and in 2008 professor for numerical mathematics at Stuttgart University.

He dealt with partial differential equations, multiscale problems and free boundary value problems and in particular the mathematics of phase transitions (especially phase field models ), dendritic growth and contact mechanics .

Fonts

• with Harald Garcke , Peter Knabner : Mathematical Modeling. Springer, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-74967-7 .
• with Lev Balykov, Vladimir Chalupecky, Heike Emmerich, Ganeshram Krishnamoorthy, Andreas Rätz, Axel Voigt: Multiscale modeling of epitaxial growth: from discrete-continuum to continuum equations. In: Alexander Mielke (Ed.): Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems. Springer, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-540-35656-8 , pp. 65-85.
• with Harald Garcke, Björn Stinner: Multiscale problems in solidification processes. In: Alexander Mielke (Ed.): Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems. Springer, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-540-35656-8 , pp. 21-64.
• with Jiří Jarušek, Miroslav Krbec: Unilateral contact problems. Variational methods and existence theorems (= Pure and Applied Mathematics. 270). Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton FL et al. 2005, ISBN 1-574-44629-0 .
• with Peter Knabner, Sergey Korotov: A two-scale method for the computation of solid-liquid phase transitions with dendritic microstructure. In: Journal of Computational Physics. Volume 178, No. 1, 2002, pp. 58-80, doi : 10.1006 / jcph.2002.7018 .
• with Peter Knabner: A Two-Scale Method for Liquid-Solid Phase Transitions with Dendritic Microstructure. In: Michael Breuer, Franz Durst, Christoph Zenger (Eds.): High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing. Proceedings of the 3rd International FORTWIHR Conference on HPSEC, Erlangen, March 12-14, 2001 (= Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. 21). Springer, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-540-42946-8 , pp. 237-244.
• with Jiří Jarušek: A survey on dynamic contact problems with Coulomb friction. In: Anna-Margarete Sendet, Werner Schiehlen, Wolfgang L. Wendland (eds.): Multifield Problems. State of the Art. (Selected Articles based on a Conference on this Topic at the University of Stuttgart in 1999). Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-67511-6 , pp. 254-261.
• with M. Bach, M. Schulz: On the treatment of contact problems in elasto-plasticity. In: Anna-Margarete Sendet, Werner Schiehlen, Wolfgang L. Wendland (eds.): Multifield Problems. State of the Art. (Selected Articles based on a Conference on this Topic at the University of Stuttgart in 1999). Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-67511-6 , pp. 229-236.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christof Eck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary at the University of Stuttgart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christof Eck in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Harald Garcke: Phase field models ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.