Calculation of the concentrated flux density distribution in parabolic trough solar concentrators by Monte Carlo Ray-Trace method

2010 Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronic, SOPO 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yang, Bin ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Xu, Tao ^a   Zhu, Qiang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Defocusing; Monte Carlo; Optical concentration ratio; Parabolic trough solar concentrators; Ray tracking

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION RATIO; DEFOCUSING; MONTE CARLO; PARABOLIC TROUGH; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; RAY TRACKING;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 77954930046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOPO.2010.5504452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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