SolTRACE: A New Optical Modeling Tool for Concentrating Solar Optics

By T. Wendelin. 2003

263 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Aron Dobos
2. A. Lewandowski
3. Manajit Sengupta
4. R. Pitz‐Paal
5. Kun Wang
6. Ze-Dong Cheng
7. Y. Qiu
8. Ya-Ling He

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Y. Qiu
2. Aron Dobos
3. A. Lewandowski
4. Ya-Ling He
5. Kun Wang
6. Manajit Sengupta
7. R. Pitz‐Paal
8. Ze-Dong Cheng

Citations in the corpus

• Study on optical and thermal performance of a linear Fresnel solar reflector using molten salt as HTF with MCRT and FVM methods (2015, background): “7(b) shows the results of the MCRT code and SolTrace [45], where rm = 21 m, rse = 2.”
• SolTrace: A Ray-Tracing Code for Complex Solar Optical Systems (2013, methodology): “Since its inception, similar tools have been developed by others in the CSP community, such as Tonatiuh [1].”
• Direct normal irradiance related definitions and applications: The circumsolar issue (2014, methodology): “, 2009), SolTRACE (Wendelin, 2003), MIRVAL (Leary and Hankins, 1979), or SPRAY (Buck, 2010) calculate the path of the sun’s rays from the sunshape to the receiver by application of physical laws.”
• Heliostat field optimization: A new computationally efficient model and biomimetic layout (2012, unknown): “The most computationally extensive components of the model (and thus most error-prone), described in Section 2, specifically the terms shading and blocking efficiency and interception efficiency, are validated using the ray-tracing tool SolTRACE [Wendelin(2003)].”