FluxTracer: A Ray Tracer Postprocessor to Assist in the Design and Optimization of Solar Concentrators and Receivers | Zendy

Manuel Blanco | Zendy; Marios Constantinou | Zendy; Clotilde Corsi | Zendy; Victor Grigoriev | Zendy; Kypros Milidonis | Zendy; Constantinos F. Panagiotou | Zendy; Costas N. Papanicolas | Zendy; John Pye | Zendy; E. V. Votyakov | Zendy

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FluxTracer: A Ray Tracer Postprocessor to Assist in the Design and Optimization of Solar Concentrators and Receivers

Author(s) -

Manuel Blanco,

Marios Constantinou,

Clotilde Corsi,

Victor Grigoriev,

Kypros Milidonis,

Constantinos F. Panagiotou,

Costas N. Papanicolas,

John Pye,

E. V. Votyakov

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of solar energy engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55

H-Index - 83

eISSN - 1528-8986

pISSN - 0199-6231

DOI - 10.1115/1.4042127

Subject(s) - computer science , voxel , monte carlo method , radiation , solar energy , radiant energy , optics , physics , computer vision , electrical engineering , engineering , mathematics , statistics

This paper presents FluxTracer, an advanced open source computer tool to assist in the analysis, design, and optimization of solar concentrators and receivers. FluxTracer is a postprocessor for Monte Carlo ray tracers used to simulate the optical behavior of solar concentrating systems. By postprocessing the rays generated by the ray tracer, FluxTracer can partition into volumetric pixels (voxels) a region of interest in three-dimensional (3D) space defined by the user and compute for each voxel the radiant power density of the concentrated solar radiation. Depending upon the set of rays provided by the ray tracer, it may be able to integrate the radiant power density in every voxel over time. The radiant energy density analysis described is just one of the analyses that FluxTracer can carry out on the set of rays generated by the ray tracer. This paper presents the main analyses that FluxTracer can provide. It also presents examples of how the information provided by FluxTracer can be used to assist in the analysis, design, and optimization of solar concentrators and receivers. FluxTracer is the first of a series of components of an open-source computational framework for the analysis, design, and optimization of solar concentrators and receiver, being developed by The Cyprus Institute (CyI) and the Australian National University (ANU).

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