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This course will cover:

• Radiative transfer applied to lighting analysis
• Methods for computing direct and interreflected illumination
• Near-field photometry

AE 461, CompSci 201

To provide students with the knowledge and ability to develop calculation models of complex lighting systems and lighting hardware and to properly apply existing computational tools to complex lighting analysis problems.

1. Fundamental illumination theory
2. Configuration factors - derivation and application
3. Form factors - derivation and application
4. Flux balance equations
5. Application of the finite element method of lighting analysis
6. Fourier series methods for modeling luminaire intensity distributions
7. Obstructing objects in flux transfer systems
8. Near-field photometry
9. Non-diffuse radiative transfer

3 class periods/week