Holistic radiation modelling with a fast simplified radiosity algorithm

IBPSA 2005 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1043-1050

  Robinson, Darren ^a   Stone, Andrew ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b BDSP Partnership   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIOSITY; SOLID ANGLE;

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ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84869857023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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