University of Debrecen

Department of Theoretical Physics


H-4010 Debrecen, P.O.Box 5, Hungary

E-mail: ferenc.kun@science.unideb.hu

Phone: +36 52 417266 ext. 1388

Web: http://mikkamakka.phys.unideb.hu/~feri

Fax: +36 52 346758

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Ferenc Kun is professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics (UD). He received his PhD in 1997 and became doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) in 2010. As a PhD Student he studied at the Ecole Superieur de la Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris, and later on he was postdoc at the Institute of Computational Physics of the University of Stuttgart. His major research field is the physics of complex systems and the statistical physics of fracture and fragmentation phenomena.

Selected Publications


Fragmentation phenomena

G. Domokos, D. J. Jerolmack, F. Kun, and J. Torok, Plato's cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 10.1073/pnas.2001037117 (2020).

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Statistical Physics of Fracture

F. Kun, I. Varga, S. Lennartz-Sassinek, and I. G. Main, Rupture Cascades in a Discrete Element Model of a Porous Sedimentary Rock, Physical Review Letters 112, 065501 (2014).

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Statistical Physics of Fracture

Zs. Danku and F. Kun, Temporal and Spacial Evolution of Bursts in Creep Rupture, Physical Review Letters 111, 084302 (2013).

Cover page of Physical Review Letters

Fragmentation

G. Timar, J. Blomer, F. Kun, and H. J. Herrmann, New Universality Class for the Fragmentation of Plastic Materials, Physical Review Letters 104, 095502 (2010).

Cover page of Physical Review Letters

Statistical Physics of Fracture

N. Yoshioka, F. Kun, and N. Ito, Size scaling and bursting activity in thermally activated breakdown of fiber bundles, Physical Review Letters 101, 145502 (2008).

Statistical Physics of Fracture

F. Kun, H. A. Carmona, J. S. Andrade Jr., and H. J. Herrmann, Universality behind Basquin's law of fatigue, Physical Review Letters 100, 094301 (2008).

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Fragmentation

F. Kun, F. K. Wittel, H. J. Herrmann, B.-H. Kröplin, and K.-J. Maloy, Scaling behaviour of fragment shapes, Physical Review Letters 96, 025504 (2006).

Fragmentation

F. K. Wittel, F. Kun, H. J. Herrmann, and B.-H. Kröplin Fragmentation of shells, Physical Review Letters 93, 035504 (2004).

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Crackling Noise

F. Kun, Gy. B. Lenkey, N. Takács, D. L. Beke, Structure of magnetic noise in dynamic fracture, Physical Review Letters 93, 227204 (2004).

Granular Matter

R. C. Hidalgo, C. U. Grosse, F. Kun, H. W. Reinhardt, and H. J. Herrmann, Evolution of percolating force chains in compressed granular media, Physical Review Letters 89, 205501 (2002).

Fragmentation

F. Kun and H. J. Herrmann, Transition from damage to fragmentation in collision of solids, Physical Review E 59, 2623 (1999).

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