Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems

This course in an introduction to building thermal models of equipment that is exposed to solar heating and uses weather files from 1000’s of locations around the world. Examples would include an airplane sitting on a runway in the sun, electronic equipment exposed to solar heating, passive solar heating of buildings and houses, solar power plants or heating of automobile dashboards.

This class is based on MSC Software’s Patran, Sinda and Thermica. If you have access to these packages you will be able to complete the step by step tutorial problem. If you don’t have access to the software, you will still learn the process of creating a thermal model with solar heating.