Computation of beam solar radiation at normal incidence using artificial neural network

Renewable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1483-1491

  Alam, Shah ^a   Kaushik, S C ^b   Garg, S N ^b  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Beam solar radiation; Feedforward back propagation; Reference clearness index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

BEAM SOLAR RADIATION; FEEDFORWARD BACK-PROPAGATION; REFERENCE CLEARNESS INDEX (RCI); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

SOLAR ENERGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33745892901     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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