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A simplified radiosity algorithm for general urban radiation exchange

D Robinson, MSc, PhD, MEI

A Stone, MEng

BDSP Partnership Ltd, Summit House, London, UK

The radiant external environment may be described by two hemispheres, above and below the horizontal plane, which are discretized into a number of patches of known solid angle. Occlusions to these patches may be combined and represented as some patch fraction for which the radiant characteristics are defined by the dominant occlusion. By solving for radiant exchanges between each surface in a scene and its associated (un)occluded patches, we have a simplified radiosity algorithm (SRA). This paper describes the application of this SRA to solve for urban scale predictions of: (i) solar radiation; (ii) interior daylight; and (iii) longwave radiation. Comparisons of solar and daylight predictions with the ray-tracing program RADIANCE show that accurate results are achieved at a computational cost several orders of magnitude lower.

Practical application: This paper describes a new model for predicting external irradiance (shortwave and longwave) and internal illuminance in an accurate and very efficient way, in a single computational module. This module may be incorporated into existing software to improve the quality of predictions from single building thermal simulations as well as emerging software for urban scale predictions of integrated resource (energy, water, waste) flows, for which the model was developed.

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 271-284 (2005)
DOI: 10.1191/0143624405bt133oa
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