Michal Pavelka Assistant professor (RNDr., PhD.) Division of Mathematical Modeling (Josef Málek's group) Mathematical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Sokolovská 49/83, 186 75 Praha 8, Office K391 Czech Republic Tel.: +420 22191 3248 pavelka at karlin.mff.cuni.cz ORCID: 0000-0003-0605-6737, ResearcherID: X-3379-2019, Scopus: 56349439500 google scholar Github account Interesting: New bachelor program Mathematical modeling!

PostDoc (Juraj Kosek's group) Department of Chemical Engineering University of Chemistry and Technology Technická 5, 16628 Prague 6 Czech Republic

Scientific activities

• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Geometrical mechanics, Hamiltonian and dissipative evolution, GENERIC
• Physical chemistry and electrochemistry (fuel cells, batteries)
• Thermodynamic optimization
• Theories of mixtures
• Fluid mechanics, polymer dynamics, hyperbolic systems
• Conference to celebrate 80th jubilee of Miroslav Grmela, Prague, July 2019
• Winter school Modelling of Biomaterials, Kácov, February 2020

Teaching

• Topics for students
• Matematika pro Fyziky II, LS 2019/2020
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of electrochemistry, LS 2019/2020
• Matematika pro Fyziky I, ZS 2019/2020
• GENERIC - nerovnovážná termodynamika, ZS 2019/2020
• Previous courses

Book

• Michal Pavelka, Václav Klika and Miroslav Grmela. Multiscale Thermo-Dynamics, de Gruyter (Berlin), 2018

Articles

• Preprints:
  • Diego del Olmo, Michal Pavelka, Juraj Kosek, On the thermodynamic derivation of Nernst relation, arXiv:1912.07724, submitted
  • Michal Pavelka, Václav Klika and Miroslav Grmela. Generalization of the dynamical lack-of-fit reduction , submitted, 2019.
  • Francisco Chinesta, Elias Cueto, Miroslav Grmela, Beatriz Moya, Michal Pavelka, Learning Physics from Data: a Thermodynamic Interpretation, arXiv:1909.01074, submitted
  • Petr Vágner and Michal Pavelka, Multiscale thermodynamics of charged mixtures, arXiv:1903.01274v1 [physics.class-ph], submitted.
• 2020:
  • Michal Pavelka, Ilya Peshkov and Martin Sýkora, A note on construction of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, Continuum Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing: Godunov's Legacy, 2020
  • Michal Pavelka, Ilya Peshkov and Václav Klika, On Hamiltonian continuum mechanics, Physica D: Nonlinear phenomena 408 (2020), 132510.
  • Miroslav Grmela, Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Gradient and GENERIC evolution towards reduced dynamics, arXiv:1912.07693. Phil. Trans.R.Soc.A378:20190472, 2020.
  • P. Švančara, M. Pavelka and M. La Mantia, An experimental study of turbulent vortex rings in superfluid 4He, Volume 88925, A24, 2020.
• 2019:
  • Oğul Esen, Miroslav Grmela, Hasan Gümral and Michal Pavelka, Lifts of Symmetric Tensors: Fluids, Plasma, and Grad Hierarchy, Entropy, 21(9), 907, 2019.
  • Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Petr Vágner and Miroslav Grmela, Dynamic Maximum Entropy Reduction, Entropy 2019, 21(7), 715; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21070715
  • Michal Pavelka, Václav Klika and Miroslav Grmela, Ehrenfest regularization of Hamiltonian systems, Physica D: Nonlinear phenomena, 399, 193-210, 2019
  • Miroslav Grmela, Michal Pavelka, Vaclav Klika, Bing-Yang Cao and Nie Bendian, Entropy and Entropy Production in Multiscale Dynamics, Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 44(3), pp. 217-233, 2019
  • Pavelka, M. and Grmela, M., Braun-Le Chatelier principle in dissipative thermodynamics, Proceedings of Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Vol. 97, No. S1, A22 (2019)
• 2018:
  • Michal Pavelka, Václav Klika and Miroslav Grmela, Thermodynamic explanation of Landau damping by reduction to hydrodynamics, Entropy 2018, 20, 457
  • Ilya Peshkov, Michal Pavelka, Evgeniy Romenski, Miroslav Grmela, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics in the Hamilton and the Godunov-type Formulations, Continuum Mechaanics and Thermodynamics 30(6), 1343-1378, 2018.
  • Adam Janečka and Michal Pavelka, Non-convex dissipation potentials in multiscale non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 30(4), 917-941, 2018.
  • Adam Janečka and Michal Pavelka, Gradient dynamics and entropy production maximization, Journal of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, 43(1), 1-19, 2018
  • Miroslav Grmela and Michal Pavelka, Landau damping in the multiscale Vlasov theory, Kinetic and Related Models (2018), 11(3), 521-545
• 2017:
  • Václav Klika, Jan Kubant, Michal Pavelka, Jay B. Benziger, Non-equilibrium thermodynamic model of water sorption in Nafion membranes, Journal of Membrane Science 540 (2017) 35-49
  • Klika, V., Pavelka, M. and Benziger, J., Functional constraints on phenomenological coefficients, Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017), 022125
  • Grmela, M., Hong, L., Jou, D., Lebon, G. and Pavelka, M., Hamiltonian and Godunov Structures of the Grad Hierarchy, Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017), 033121
  • Esen, O., Pavelka, M. and Grmela, M., Hamiltonian coupling of electromagnetic field and matter, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (2017) 9(1):3-20
  • Vágner, P., Pavelka, M., Maršík, F., Pitfalls of exergy analysis, Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (2017), 42 (2)
  • Ván, P., Pavelka, M. and Grmela, M., Extra mass flux in fluid mechanics, Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (2017), 42 (2)
• 2016:
  • Pavelka, M., Klika, V., Esen, O. and Grmela, M., A hierarchy of Poisson brackets in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, arXiv:1512.08010, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 335 (2016), pages 54–69
• 2015:
  • 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
• 2014:
  • 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
• 2013:
  • 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
• Maršík, F., Novotný, P., Pavelka, M., Klika, V. Thermodynamic analysis of the fuel cells efficiency-Thermodynamic stability approah, 20th World Hydrogen Energy Conference, South Korea 2014
• 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

Some presentations

• Joszef Verhas 80: On Hamiltonian continuum mechanics

Professional experience

• July 2016 - now: Assistant professor at the Mathematical Institute of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (Josef Málek's group)
• March 2016 - now: Postdoc at the 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 (supervisor: prof. František Maršík)
• 2012: 1 month at ITLR Stuttgart, Germany (collaboration with Bernhard Weigand)

Grants awarded

• 2020-2022: Czech Grant Agency grant 20-22092S (PI Václav Klika): Multiscale thermodynamics: boundary conditions, integration and applications, total budget €164k
• 2017-2020: Marie Curie European Training Network FlowCamp (PI Peter Fischer, Fraunhofer ICT): Development of redox-flow batteries (organic, zinc-air and hydrogen-bromine), total budget € 3 796k (€ 232k for our part). We focus on modeling of the zinc-air battery.
• 2017-2019: Czech Grant Agency grant 17-15498Y (PI Michal Pavelka): Multiscale Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, total budget € 110k
• 2015-2017: Student grant GAUK (PI Petr Vágner): Thermodynamics in electrochemistry and fuel cells

Students

• Martin Sýkora (supervisor): Ph.D. thesis, Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of hyperbolic systems, 2019-ongoing, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Ondřej Kincl (supervisor): M.Sc. thesis, Thermodynamic modeling of rolling fluid turbine, 2019-ongoing, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Diego del Olmo Díaz (co-supervisor): Ph.D. thesis, Modelling and simulation of zinc-air redox-flow batteries, 2019-ongoing, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
• Petr Vágner (co-supervisor): Ph.D. thesis, Thermodynamic analysis of solid oxide fuel cells, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Martin Sýkora (supervisor): M.Sc. thesis, Hamiltonian and thermodynamic theory of solids and fluids , 2017-2019, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Mária Minichová (supervisor): M.Sc. thesis, Density functional theory as a tool for calculation of interfacial properties, 2017-2018, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
• Malvína Voclová (co-supervisor): M.Sc. thesis, Improved description of transport in Cahn-Hilliard model of morphology evolution, 2015-2016, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic