A New Fast Ray Tracing Tool for High-Precision Simulation of Heliostat Fields

By Boris Belhomme, R. Pitz‐Paal, P. Schwarzbözl, S. Ulmer. 2009

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Manajit Sengupta
2. Bella Espinar
3. Lucien Wald
4. Philippe Blanc
5. Christian A. Gueymard
6. Pierre Ineichen
7. Clifford W. Hansen
8. Matthew J. Reno

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. R. Pitz‐Paal
2. Manajit Sengupta

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. R. Pitz‐Paal
2. Manajit Sengupta
3. Lucien Wald
4. Christian A. Gueymard
5. Pierre Ineichen
6. Clifford W. Hansen
7. Matthew J. Reno
8. Joshua S. Stein

Citations in the corpus

• Heliostat field optimization: A new computationally efficient model and biomimetic layout (2012, unknown): “This method, also referred to as the bounding sphere method [Belhomme et al.(2009)], prevents unnecessary calculations for heliostats that are incapable of shading or blocking the heliostat currently being evaluated.”
• Direct normal irradiance related definitions and applications: The circumsolar issue (2014, methodology): “Ray tracing tools such as STRAL (Belhomme et al., 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.”