Daylighting in atria: The effect of atrium geometry and reflectance distribution

Lighting Research and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-157

  Samant, Swinal ^a   Yang, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DAYLIGHT FACTOR; REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION;

DAYLIGHTING;

EID: 34250757564     PISSN: 14771535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1365782806074482     Document Type: Article

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