Ashok Gadgil

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

Awards:

Please see list on my personal webpage.

Links

Employee's Web Page

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

Publications

2002

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.

Mora, Laurent, and Ashok J. Gadgil. Theoretical study of pollutant mixing in rooms induced by occupancy In Proceedings of the Room Vent 2002 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark., 2002.

Craig, Paul, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Jonathan G. Koomey. "What can history teach us?: A retrospective analysis of long-term energy forecasts for the U.S." Annual Reviews of Energy and the Environment 27 (2002): 83-118.

2001

Fischer, Marc L., Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Carrie A. Schwalbe, Mathias J. Craig, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil. "Rapid Measurement and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space." Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001): 2837-2844.

2000

Price, Phillip N., Marc L. Fischer, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro. "Algorithm for rapid tomography of gas concentrations." Atmospheric Environment 35 (2000): 2827-2835.

Litvak, A., Ashok J. Gadgil, and William J. Fisk. "Hygroscopic Fine Mode Particle Deposition on Electronic Circuits and Resulting Degradation of Circuit Performance: An Experimental Study." Indoor Air 10 (2000): 47-56.

Gadgil, Ashok J., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Marc L. Fischer, Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Mathias J. Craig, Ki-Hyuck Hong, J. Housman, Carrie A. Schwalbe, David J. Wilson et al. Pollutant transport and dispersion in large indoor spaces: A status report for the large space effort of the Interiors Project. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000. Download: PDF (1.08 MB)

1999

Gadgil, Ashok J., G. M. Jannuzzi, E. Silva, and M. L. Leonardi. "A Cost-Neutral Strategy for Maximal Use of Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency in Manaus, Brazil." Energy Policy 27 (1999): 357-367.

Riley, William J., A. L. Robinson, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff. "Effects of variable wind speed and direction on radon transport from soil into buildings: model development and exploratory results." Atmospheric Environment 33 (1999): 2157-2168.

Thatcher, Tracy L., Marc L. Fischer, Phillip N. Price, William J. Fisk, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro. Measuring dispersion of gases in a large scale indoor environment using an open path tunable diode laser In Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland. Vol. 4. Construction Research Communications, Ltd., London, 1999.

This Speaker's Seminars


CEE Distinguished Lecture - Ashok Gadgil on "Innovating Technologies for the Poorest Two Billion"
Mission to Darfur (in Bldg. 50)
Mission to Darfur (in room 90-4133)

Environmental Energy Technologies Division

How Do I?