Assessment of approaches for modeling louver shading devices in building energy simulation programs

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 286-297

  Saelens, D ^a   Parys, W ^a   Roofthooft, J ^a   De La Torre, A Tablada ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Angular dependent properties; Building energy simulation; g Value; Louvers; Ray tracing; Shading device; Solar energy; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENT PROPERTIES; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; G-VALUES; LOUVERS; SHADING DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; RAY TRACING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

COOLING;

EID: 84874728348     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.10.056     Document Type: Article

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