Modeling of daily solar energy on a horizontal surface for five main sites in Malaysia

International Journal of Green Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 795-819

  Khatib, Tamer ^a   Mohamed, Azah ^a   Mahmoud, Marwan ^b   Sopian, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

ANN; Diffuse solar energy; Global solar energy; Malaysia; Solar energy modeling

Indexed keywords

ANN; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; ENERGY MODEL; FUZZY LOGIC MODEL; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; MALAYSIA; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; MEAN BIAS ERRORS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOLAR ENERGY MODELING;

FUZZY LOGIC; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR POWER;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84857838553     PISSN: 15435075     EISSN: 15435083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15435075.2011.602156     Document Type: Article

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