QMCRT

This repository contains the verifications and comparisons of optical simulation results from QMCRT and six optical modelling tools in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) research.The six other modelling tools are SolTrace, Tonatiuh, Tracer, Solstice, Heliosim and SolarPILOT.

The experiments consists of two rounds of tests.They are based on the related experiments described in (Wang et al., 2020) which aims at investigating the effect of sunshape and surface slope error.

The content includs:

• Buie_sunshape
  

  • data(data files)
    This folder contains six files.
    The first half files are results of three tests in QMCRT with Tonatiuh's polynomial calibrated CSR(0.01,0.02,0.03)
    The other three files are results of three tests in QMCRT for CSR(0.01,0.02,0.03).
  • plots(figures and comparison)
    
    • energy
      The total energy received on the target in different optical modelling tools.
    • flux_diff
      The flux density distribution on the target in different optical modelling tools compared to Tonatiuh in csr=0.03.
    • flux_map
      The flux density distribution on the target in different optical modelling tools with CSR calibration.
    • radiance
      The normalised radiance distribution on the target in tests of QMCRT with different csr(0.01,0.02,0.03);
      The normalised radiance distribution on the target in tests of QMCRT with polynomial calibrated CSR(0.01,0.02,0.03);
      The normalised radiance distribution on the target in tests of QMCRT compare to other six optical modelling tools with polynomial calibrated CSR(0.01,0.02,0.03).

• Normal_slope_error
  

  • data(data files)
    This folder contains three files corresponding to experments with three slope errors(1,2,3mrad).
  • plots(figures and comparison)
    
    • energy
      The total energy received on the target in different optical modelling tools.
    • flux_diff
      The flux density distribution on the target in different optical modelling tools compared to Tonatiuh in slope error=1mrad.
    • flux_map
      The flux density distribution on the target in different optical modelling tools with different slope error.
    • radiance
      The normalised radiance distribution on the target under three slope errors(1,2,3mrad).