Ingo Müller (physicist)

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Ingo Müller (born December 23, 1936 in Darmstadt ) is a German physicist who excelled in the areas of thermodynamics and material theory.

He is an important representative of rational thermodynamics and the material theory of memory alloys. The (rational) extended thermodynamics was founded by him. This provides a mathematical description of fluids in which disturbances - in contrast to the Navier-Stokes equations - do not propagate with infinite speed. In his books he also deals with the history of thermodynamics.

Müller studied physics and mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and did his doctorate there with Josef Meixner . He worked u. a. with Clifford Truesdell at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .

After professorships at Johns Hopkins University from 1970 to 1975, he returned to Germany to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and later to the University of Paderborn as a professor of theoretical physics. From 1979 until his retirement on March 31, 2005, he was Professor of Thermodynamics at the Technical University of Berlin .

Fonts

  • Thermodynamics. The basics of material theory. Bertelsmann Universitäts-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973.
  • Thermodynamics. Pitman, Boston MA et al. 1985, ISBN 0-273-08577-8 .
  • with Tommaso Ruggeri: Extended mechanics (= Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy. Vol. 37). Springer, New York NY et al. 1993, ISBN 0-387-97922-0 (2nd edition as: Rational extended thermodynamics. Ibid 1998, ISBN 0-387-98373-2 ).
  • Basics of Thermodynamics. With historical notes. Springer, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-540-58158-8 (3rd edition. Ibid 2001, ISBN 3-540-42210-2 ).
  • with Peter Strehlow: Rubber and Rubber Balloons Paradigms of Thermodynamics (= Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 637). Springer, Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20244-7 .
  • with Wolf Weiss: Entropy and Energy. A universal competition. Springer, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-540-24281-3 .
  • A history of thermodynamics. The doctrine of energy and entropy. Springer, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-46226-2 .
  • with Wolfgang H. Müller: Fundamentals of thermodynamics and applications. With historical annotations and many citations from Avogadro to Zermelo. Springer, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-74645-4 .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar. Issue 17, Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, 1996, page 943
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt