Michal Pavelka

Assistant professor at Mathematical Modeling
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University in Prague
Czech Republic
mipavelka at gmail dot com

PostDoc (Kosek group)
University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague
Czech Republic

Scientific activities

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Hamiltonian and dissipative evolution
Mathematical modeling of fuel cells and batteries
Thermodynamic optimization
Theories of mixtures
Fluid mechanics, polymer dynamics

Articles

Esen, O., Pavelka, M. and Grmela, M., Hamiltonian coupling of electromagnetic field and matter, http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02023v1
Ván, P., Pavelka, M. and Grmela, M., Extra mass flux in fluid mechanics, http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03900v4
Pavelka, M., Klika, V., Esen, O. and Grmela, M., A hierarchy of Poisson brackets in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, accepted in Physica D (2016)
Grmela, M., Klika, V. and Pavelka, M., Reductions and Extensions in mesoscopic dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 92 (2015), 032111
Benziger, J. B., Cheah, M. J., Klika, V. and Pavelka, M., Interfacial constraints on water and proton transport across nafion membranes, J. Polym. Sci. Part B, July 2015
Pavelka, M., Wandschneider, F. and Mazur, P., Thermodynamic derivation of open circuit voltage in vanadium redox flow batteries, J. Power Sources (293), 2015, 400-408
Pavelka, M., Klika, V. and Grmela, M., Time-reversal in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, Phys. Rev. E 90 (2014), 062131
Pavelka, M., Klika, V., Vágner, P., Maršík, F., Generalization of Exergy Analysis, Applied Energy 137 (2015), pp. 158-172
Pavelka, M., Maršík, F., Klika, V., Consistent theory of mixtures on different levels of description, Int. J. Eng. Sci. 78C (2014), pp. 192-217
Pavelka, M., Maršík, F., Detailed thermodynamic analysis of PEM fuel cells, Int. J. Hydrogen En. 38 (2013), pp. 7102-7113

Proceedings

Pavelka, M., Maršík, F., Detailed thermodynamic analysis of fuel cells, JETC 2013, Brescia, Italy
Pavelka, M., Maršík, F., Detailed thermodynamic analysis of fuel cell efficiency, Melpro 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Industrial collaboration

Thermodynamic analysis of diamond manufacturing. SHM, Czech Republic
Particle motion in electromagnetic field of a coating machine. SHM, Czech Republic

Professional experience

July 2016 - now: Assistant professor at Mathematical Institute of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
March 2016 - now: Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Czech Republic (Juraj Kosek's group)
February 2015 - February 2016: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec, Canada (PostDoc working with Miroslav Grmela)
2012-2016: PhD student - researcher at New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2012-2015: PhD student at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
2013: 1 week at Princeton University, USA (collaboration with Jay Benziger)
2012: 1 month at ITLR Stuttgart, Germany (collaboration with Bernhard Weigand)