• Title of article

    Ray tracing study for non-imaging daylight collectors

  • Author/Authors

    Stephen Wittkopf a، نويسنده , , b، نويسنده , , *، نويسنده , , Lars Oliver Grobe a، نويسنده , , David Geisler-Moroder a، نويسنده , , Raphae¨l Compagnon c، نويسنده , , Je´roˆme Ka¨mpf b، نويسنده , , Friedrich Linhart، نويسنده , , Jean-Louis Scartezzini، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    986
  • To page
    996
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a novel method to study how well non-imaging daylight collectors pipe diffuse daylight into long horizontal funnels for illuminating deep buildings. Forward ray tracing is used to derive luminous intensity distributions curves (LIDC) of such collectors centered in an arc-shaped light source representing daylight. New photometric characteristics such as 2D flux, angular spread and horizontal offset are introduced as a function of such LIDC. They are applied for quantifying and thus comparing different collector contours. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
  • Keywords
    photometry , Forward ray tracing , Non-imaging daylight collectors , Performance criteria , Anidolic
  • Journal title
    Solar Energy
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Solar Energy
  • Record number

    940346