DOE OSTI · code-20264
PV TOMCAT
Abstract
PV TOMCAT predicts the outdoor operating temperature and output power of a PV module based on measured physical properties and outdoor conditions. It includes a ray tracing model of a PV module, which runs in the commercial SunSolve ray tracer. Output from this model is combined with meteorological time series data to produce a combined input file for a finite-element model of heat conduction and radiation. Finally, this finite-element model is run in the commercial COMSOL Multiphysics software, producing time series outputs of temperature and power.
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Deceglie, Michael, Silverman, Timothy, Slauch, Ian. 2018-08-22. PV TOMCAT. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20181105.1
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