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
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

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
- Miroslav Grmela, Vaclav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Gradient and GENERIC evolution towards reduced dynamics, arXiv:1912.07693, 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
- Michal Pavelka, Ilya Peshkov and Václav Klika, On Hamiltonian continuum mechanics, arXiv:1907.03396 [physics.class-ph], 2019, submitted
- Petr Vágner and Michal Pavelka, Multiscale thermodynamics of charged mixtures, arXiv:1903.01274v1 [physics.class-ph], submitted.
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

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
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
2019-2021: Czech Grant Agency grant 19-00939S (PI Marco La Mantia): Dynamics of large vortices in quantum turbulence, total budget € 314k.
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