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Portrait of Ashok Gadgil

Ashok Gadgil

Division Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 90R3029B
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 90-3026A
(510) 486-7784

Dr. Gadgil is a Senior Scientist, and Director for the Division. He has a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley. His expertise ranges from computational fluid dynamics of indoor air and pollutant flows, simulation of entry and transport of indoor radon, building energy efficiency, and methods to treat drinking water to make it potable. He has more than 80 refereed archival journal papers, 120 conference papers, and several patents. He holds concurrent appointment on the UC Berkeley Campus as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Areas of expertise:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics of indoor air and pollutant transport
  • Simulation methods for complex non-linear systems
  • Energy efficiency in buildings
  • Drinking water treatment

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This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.

Publications

2003

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Delp, David M. Lorenzetti, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Tracy L. Thatcher, Richard G. Sextro, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis. Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: actions to take before or during a release., 2003.
Gadgil, Ashok J., and Elisabeth A. Derby. Providing safe drinking water to 1.1 billion unserved people In Proceedings of the 96th Annual AWMA Conference, San Diego, CA. Paper No. 70492, Session ES 4i ed. Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003.
Sohn, Michael D., Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Joan M. Daisey. "Responding to Sudden Pollutant Releases in Office Buildings: 1. Framework and Analysis Tools." Indoor Air 13 (2003): 267-276.

2002

Price, Phillip N., William W. Delp, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, David M. Lorenzetti, Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis. "Advice for first responders to a building during a chemical or biological attack." (2002).
Abadie, Marc O., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, and Ashok J. Gadgil. Infiltration heat recovery in building walls: Computational fluid dynamics investigations results., 2002.
Price, Phillip N., David M. Lorenzetti, Ashok J. Gadgil, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Delp, and Sondra A. Jarvis. Information for first responders to a chemical or biological attack., 2002. Download: 
Lobscheid, C., and Ashok J. Gadgil. Mixing of a point-source indoor pollution: Numerical predictions and comparison with experiments In Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA. Vol. 4. Indoor Air 2002, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002.
Federspiel, Clifford C., Huilin Li, David M. Auslander, David M. Lorenzetti, and Ashok J. Gadgil. Modeling transient contaminant transport in HVAC systems and buildings In Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA. Vol. 4. Indoor Air 2002, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002.
Sohn, Michael D., P. Reynolds, N. Singh, and Ashok J. Gadgil. "Rapidly locating and characterizing pollutant releases in buildings: An application of Bayesian data analysis." Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 52 (2002): 1422-1432.
Sohn, Michael D., P. Reynolds, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro. Rapidly Locating Sources And Predicting Contaminant Dispersion In Buildings In Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA. Vol. 4. Indoor Air 2002, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002.

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