Solar resource estimation using artificial neural networks and comparison with other correlation models

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2519-2530

  Reddy, K S ^a   Ranjan, Manish ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Backpropagation; Mean absolute relative deviation; Multi layer feed forward networks; Percentage relative deviation; Solar global radiation

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONITORING; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

PERCENTAGE RELATIVE DEVIATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0038713376     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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