Energy and Buildings, Vol.23, No.2, 117-120, 1995
Estimating effective solar absorptance in rooms
A model capable of calculating the redistribution of solar energy inside a building's rooms and the room's effective solar absorptance was developed and implemented in a computer code. Best-fit curves of a room's effective solar absorptance are provided as a function of the ratio between the window area and the internal surface area and of the wail absorptance. Moreover, model predictions are compared with an approximate theoretical equation.