Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems

Name: Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems
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Learn to model thermal systems with solar heating and realistic worldwide weather data

Created byRon Behee

Last updated 5/2014

English

What you'll learn

by the end of this course you will be able to use the software for simple solar heating thermal models

Course content

8 sections • 34 lectures • 3h 40m total length

Introduction to This Course9:02
Examples Thermal Models2:39
This video shows three different thermal solar models. It does not contain any audio, but has text labels explaining each model

Tutorial Workshop Problem PDF File54:00
This is the workshop problem that will be done during the remainder of this course. You can download it here as a PDF file
Introduction to the Tutorial workshop2:08
Discussion of the workshop that will be done for the remainder of this course. This 54 page workshop was included in the last lecture as a PDF download
Creating the Geometry5:29
Adding Materials and Properties6:33
Meshing2:47
Thermal Radiation Loads4:37
Environment Simulation Module (ESM) Setup9:31
Running the model for the first time12:39
Viewing the Results2:43
Rerunning the Thermal Model in the Background8:24

Requirements

Basics physics or engineering background.

Description

This course in an introduction to building thermal models of equipment that is exposed to solar heating and uses weather files from 1000's of locations around the world. Examples would include an airplane sitting on a runway in the sun, electronic equipment exposed to solar heating, passive solar heating of buildings and houses, solar power plants or heating of automobile dashboards.

This class is based on MSC Software's Patran, Sinda and Thermica. If you have access to these packages you will be able to complete the step by step tutorial problem. If you don't have access to the software, you will still learn the process of creating a thermal model with solar heating.

Who this course is for:

Engineers who have some experience in creating thermal models.

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Introduction to this Course2 lectures • 12min

Solar Energy Fundamentals3 lectures • 38min

Software used to Create Thermal Models with Solar Energy2 lectures • 16min

Detailed Tutorial Problem10 lectures • 1hr 49min

Adding a Near Field Ground Model8 lectures • 49min

Changing the Date and Location of the Model4 lectures • 14min

Using the Design Day Feature for Simulating Worst Cases3 lectures • 25min

Summary and Conclusions2 lectures • 12min

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