Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2006

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Ashok J Gadgil."CFD Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table: Novel Concepts."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 3 (2006) 583-591.

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Michael D Sohn, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Emily E Wood, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

2005

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Emily E Wood, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Comparison between experiments and CFD predictions of mixed convection flows in an atrium."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3(3) (2005) 2849-2853.

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Ashok J Gadgil."Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 3(1) (2005) 2575-2579.

2004

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Ashok J Gadgil, Tracy L Thatcher, and Richard G Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space Part 2 -- Computational Fluid Dyamics (CF) Predictions and Comparisons with a Model Experiment for Isothermal Flow."Indoor Air 14 (2004) 272-283.

2003

Gadgil, Ashok J, Christian Lobscheid, Marc O Abadie, and Elizabeth U Finlayson."Indoor Pollutant Mixing Time in an Isothermal Closed Room: An investigation using CFD."Atmospheric Environment 37.39-40 (2003) 5577-5586. DOI

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Buvaneswari Jayaraman, Astrid H Kristoffersen, and Ashok J Gadgil."CFD Analysis of LLNL Downdraft Table." (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).

2002

Abadie, Marc O, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Ashok J Gadgil."Infiltration heat recovery in building walls: Computational fluid dynamics investigations results." (2002).

2000

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C Curcija, and John Carmody."THERM 2.1 NFRC Simulation Manual." (2000) 260.

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, Emily E Wood, and Richard G Sextro."Pollutant transport and dispersion in large indoor spaces: A status report for the large space effort of the Interiors Project." (2000).

1999

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, Brent T Griffith, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 2.0: A Building Component Model for Steady-State Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer."Building Simulation 99, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) (1999).

Klems, Joseph H, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Thomas H Olsen, David W Banks, and Jani M Pallis."Toward a Virtual Building Laboratory." (1999).

1998

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, and Brent T Griffith."Teaching Students about Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer Effects in Buildings, Building Components, Equipment, and Appliances Using THERM 2.0."ASHRAE Transactions 105, Part 1 (1998).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, Robin Mitchell, and Michael D Rubin."State-of-the-Art Software for Window Energy-Efficiency Rating and Labeling."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 2.0: a PC Program for Analyzing Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer through Building products." (1998).

1997

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Dragan C Curcija, Jeff Baker, and Charlie Huizenga."Guidelines for Modeling Projecting Fenestration Products."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

Griffith, Brent T, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Mehry Yazdanian, and Dariush K Arasteh."The Significance of Bolts in the Thermal Performance of Curtain-Wall Frames for Glazed Façades."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

1995

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Michael D Rubin, John Sadlier, Robert Sullivan, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C Curcija, and Mark Beall."Advances in Thermal and Optical Simulations of Fenestration Systems: The Development of WINDOW 5."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Michael D Rubin, and John Sadlier."Recent Technical Improvements to the WINDOW Computer Program."Window Innovations 95 (1995).

1994

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Charlie Huizenga."WINDOW 4.1: Program Description." (1994).

1993

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Michael D Rubin, and M. M Susan Reilly."Window 4.0: Documentation of Calculation Procedures." (1993).