Interactions between louvers and ceiling geometry for maximum daylighting performance

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 223-232

  Freewan, Ahmed A ^a   Shao, Li ^b   Riffat, Saffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Illuminance level; Louvers; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

DAYLIGHTING; GEOMETRY;

DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMITY; ILLUMINANCE LEVEL; LOUVERS; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PHYSICAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS; RADIANCE SIMULATION; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; UNIFORMITY;

CEILINGS;

CLEAR SKY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 51649122658     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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