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The University of Sheffield
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
United Kingdom
PERSONAL DATA
Citizenship: German
EDUCATION
2/1994 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Physics, Max Planck Institute/Univ. Stgt.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
Classical Mechanics
Electrodynamics
Quantum Mechanics
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
MEMBERSHIPS
• Journal of Physics D
• Nanotechnology
• Ultrasonics
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
References
[1] Rahman M, Michelitsch T.M. 2006, “A Note on the Formula for the
Rayleigh wave speed”, Wave Motion 43, 272-276.
[2] Michelitsch T.M., Wang J., Gao H., Levin V.M. 2005, On the retarded
potentials of inhomogeneous ellipsoids and sources of arbitrary shapes
in the three-dimensional infinite space, International Journal of
Solids and Structures, Vol. 42, pp. 51-67.
[3] Wang J., Michelitsch T.M., Gao H. and Levin V.M. 2005, On the so-
lution of the dynamic Eshelb problem for inclusions of various shapes,
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Microme-
chanics of Materials, Special Issue, M. Kachanov, guest ed.,
Vol. 42(2), pp. 353-363.
[4] Michelitsch T.M., Gao H., Levin V.M., 2003. Dynamic Eshelby Tensors
and Potentials for Ellipsoidal Inclusions, Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London A, 459, 863-890.
[5] Michelitsch T.M., V.M. Levin and H. Gao, 2002. Dynamic Green’s
Functions of a Quasiplane Piezoelectric Medium With Inclusion. Pro-
ceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 458, 2393-2415.
[6] Michelitsch T.M. Gao, H. Levin V.M. 2003, On the Dynamic Potentials
of Ellipsoidal Shells Quarterly J. Mech. Appl. Math. 56(4), 629-
648.
[7] Levin VM, Michelitsch TM, Gao H, 2002. Propagation of electroacous-
tic waves in the transversely isotropic piezoelectric medium reinforced
by randomly distributed cylindrical inhomogeneities, Int. J. Solids
Structures, 39 pp. 5013-5015.
[8] Wang J., Michelitsch T.M., Gao H. 2003. Dynamic Fiber Inclusions
with Ellipsoidal and Arbitrary Cross-Sections and Related Retarded
Potentials in a Quasi-Plane Piezoelectric Medium. Int. J. Solids
Structures, 40, 6307-6333.
[9] Kuhn R, Michelitsch T, Levin VM, Vakulenko AA 2002. The analogue
of the Eshelby tensor for a piezoelectric spheroidal inclusion in the
hexagonal electroelastic medium. Z Angew. Math. Phys. 53 pp.
584-602.
[10] Michelitsch, T. M., Gao, H., 2003. Dynamic Eshelby Inclusion Problem
of a Quasiplane Transversely Isotropic Piezoelectric Medium, to appear
in: Chin. J. Mech. A 19 (1) (Birthday Volume in honor of the 70th
birthday of Prof. T.C.T. Ting), pp 113-118.
[11] Michelitsch T, Levin VM, 2001. Green’s function for the infinite two-
dimensional orthotropic medium Int. J Fracture 107 (2): L33-L38.
[13] Diebels S., Ehlers W., and Michelitsch T., 2001. Particle simulation as
a microscopic approach to a Cosserat continuum. J. Phys. IV , 11,
5203-5210.
[14] Ehlers W., Diebels S., Michelitsch T., 2001. Microscopic investigation
of cosserat continua. Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 81, 335-336.
[18] Michelitsch T, Kreher WS, 1998. A simple model for the nonlinear
material behavior of ferroelectrics Acta Mater . 46 (14): 5085-5094.
[19] Michelitsch T, 1997. Calculation of the electroelastic Green’s function
of the hexagonal infinite medium Z. Physik B 104 (3): 497-503.
[26] Michelitsch T., Michelitsch M. 1992. A Novel Mandelbrot Set and Its
Julia Sets. Machine GRAPHICS & VISION 1 (4), 635-634.
[29] Michelitsch T.M. Allan L., A.F.L. Hyde, 2006. Macroscopic Balance
Equations For Granular Materials. TC35 Conference, Geome-
chanics and Geotechnics of Particulate Media, Yamaguchi
University, Yamaguchi, Japan, September 12-14, 2006.
[30] Askes H., Gitman I.M., Michelitsch T.M., 2006. ”Critical Wave Lengths
and Instabilities in Gradient Enriched Continuum Theories”, Prceed-
ings, The Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling
and Computer Simulation of Materials Technologies, MMT-2006, Ariel,
Israel, September 11 - 15, 2006.
[31] Michelitsch T.M., Askes H., Wang J., Levin V.M., 2005. “Solutions
of dynamic Variants of Eshelby Inclusion problem”, in: Vibration
Problems in Physics ICOVP 2005, Series: Springer Proceedings in
Physics, Inan, Esin; Kiris Ahmed (Eds.), ISBN-10: 1-4020-5400-9.
[33] Michelitsch T.M., Wang J., Gao H., Levin V.M., 2003. Solution of the
inhomogeneous Helmholtz- and Wave Equation for Ellipsoidal Sources.
Continuum models an discrete systems. Proceedings of the
NATO Advanced. Research Workshop, Shoresh, Israel, 3 – 4
July, 2003
[34] Michelitsch T. M., Gao H. Levin V.M. 2003. Solution of the inhomo-
geneous Helmholtz equation for an ellipsoidal source region. Interna-
tional Conference on the Mechanical Behaviour o Materials
(ICM9), Geneva May 25-29, 2003, Proceedings.
[35] V.M. Levin, T.M. Michelitsch, H.Gao 2002. Modelling of the Effective
Dynamic Characteristics of Reinforced Transversely Isotropic Piezo-
electric Materials. Proceedings of the SPIE, Smart Structure and
Materials San Diego 2002 Active Materials (C. Lynch Ed.) Paper no.
4699-14.
[37] Diebels S., Ehlers W., and Michelitsch T. 2001. From discontinuous to
continuous modelling of materials. In N. Bicanic, Editor, Proceeding
of ICADD-4 , pp. 251-260. University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK,
2001.
References
[1] Michelitsch T, Levin V.M. Wunderlin A. Acoustic Wave Propagation
in the Three Dimensional Infinite Anisotropic Medium.
[4] Michelitsch T.M. and Rahman M., ”The Cauchy Problem of Elastody-
namics and related fundamental solutions of isotropic and anisotropic
three-dimensional elasticity.”, under preparation, to be submitted.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
My teaching and research interests are flexible and cover a wider range of
applied mathematics and theoretical physics.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
During my time at Max Planck Institute I was leading the ’Smart Mate-
rials Group’ conducting analytical-mathematical research in the framework
of the research project ”Mathematical Modelling of the Dynamic Character-
istics in Piezocomposites” for which I attracted successfully funding from the
German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG). My
research proposal application (which was submitted on behalf of Prof. H.
Gao, head of department) was approved twice: The first application was ap-
proved for 2 years (DFG project no. GA 732/1-1) and the second application
for another year (project no. GA 732/1-2). Last but not least I managed to
attract the funding for the full three years which is the maximum duration
of such DFG projects. Within this research project a series of papers were
published which already attracted wider attention in the community (papers
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]). The problems solved include extensive analytical
modelling and development of closed form solutions to the dynamic vari-
ant of Eshelby inclusion problem [4] and contributions to the theory of the
Helmholtz potential of ellipsoidal source regions [6]. The developed mathe-
matical apparatus on ‘dynamic potentials’ turned out to be a powerful ap-
proach in order to deduce functions of Mathematical Physics in a simple and
universal way (unpublished manuscript [2]).
During the last 2-3 years I have started a very fruitful collaboration with
Dr. Mujibur Rahman from Boing company on several problems of analyti-
cal mechanics ([1], the paper under submission, and unpublished manuscript
[4]). This ongoing collaboration is to be continued in the future.
A new field which one might call “fractal analysis” or “physics on self similar
material systems” has been developing. This new field requires a new kind of
mathematics which has been emerging recently based on a pioneering work
of Kigami [J. Kigami, Japan J. Appl. Math. 8 (1989), 259-290.]. Basic
equations of physics need to be defined and solved on a fractal gasket (such
as for instance the Laplace equation).