7778 2020 2019 eng 69 masterthesis 0 -- -- 2019-12-20 The determination of time of death is one of the central tasks in forensic medicine. A standard method of time of death estimation elies on matching temperature measurements of the corpse with a post-mortem cooling model. In addition to widely used empirical post-mortem models, modelling based on a precise mathematical simulation of the cooling process have been gaining popularity. The simulation based cooling models and the resulting time of death estimates dependon a large variety of parameters. These include hermal properties for different body tissue types, environmental conditions such as temperature and air flow, and the presence of clothing and coverings. In this thesis we focus on a specific arameter - the contact between corpse and underground - and investigate its influence on the time of death estimation. Resulting we aim to answer the question whether it is necessary to consider contact mechanics in the underlying mathematical cooling model. Konstantin Fackeldey Felix Baumann Martin Weiser Martin Weiser eng uncontrolled time of death estimation eng uncontrolled contact mechanics eng uncontrolled heat equation eng uncontrolled inverse problems NUMERICAL ANALYSIS Numerical Mathematics UJena-Forensic ZIB-Kaskade7 Baumann, Felix Modeling and Simulation of Complex Processes Technische Universität Berlin