solarcfd.com was developed based on recent scientific works. The most important are listed below.
CFD simulation of solar panels:
- Jubayer, C. M., & Hangan, H. (2014). Numerical simulation of wind effects on a stand-alone ground mounted photovoltaic (PV) system. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 134, 56-64.
- Jubayer, C. M. (2014). Wind and thermal effects on ground mounted photovoltaic (PV) panels. The University of Western Ontario (Canada).
- Reina, G. P., & De Stefano, G. (2017). Computational evaluation of wind loads on sun-tracking ground-mounted photovoltaic panel arrays. Journal of Wind engineering and industrial Aerodynamics, 170, 283-293.
- Wang, J., Van Phuc, P., Yang, Q., & Tamura, Y. (2020). LES study of wind pressure and flow characteristics of flat-roof-mounted solar arrays. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 198, 104096.
- Darhouane, A. (2022). Numerical investigation of wind load acting on a ground fixed solar panel (Master’s thesis, uis).
- Agarwal, A., Irtaza, H., & Zameel, A. (2017). Numerical study of lift and drag coefficients on a ground-mounted photo-voltaic solar panel. Materials Today: Proceedings, 4(9), 9822-9827.
- Coşoiu, C. I., Damian, A. N. D. R. E. I., Damian, R. M., & Degeratu, M. I. R. C. E. A. (2008, June). Numerical and experimental investigation of wind induced pressures on a photovoltaic solar panel. In Proceedings of the 4th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Energy, Environment, Ecosystem and Sustainable Development, Algarve, Portugal (pp. 74-80).
- Uslu, V. E., Uzol, O., & Saritas, A. (2016, August). Wind loads acting on solar panels in a row by CFD analysis. In 2016 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental and Materials Research, Jeju, Island.
- Yemenici, O., & Aksoy, M. O. (2021). An experimental and numerical study of wind effects on a ground-mounted solar panel at different panel tilt angles and wind directions. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 213, 104630.
Wind tunnel experiments:
- Erwin, J., Bitsuamlak, G., Chowdhury, A. G., Barkaszi, S., & Gamble, S. (2013). Full scale and wind tunnel testing of a photovoltaic panel mounted on residential roofs. In Advances in Hurricane Engineering: Learning from Our Past (pp. 471-482).
- Coşoiu, C. I., Damian, A. N. D. R. E. I., Damian, R. M., & Degeratu, M. I. R. C. E. A. (2008, June). Numerical and experimental investigation of wind induced pressures on a photovoltaic solar panel. In Proceedings of the 4th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Energy, Environment, Ecosystem and Sustainable Development, Algarve, Portugal (pp. 74-80).
- Yemenici, O., & Aksoy, M. O. (2021). An experimental and numerical study of wind effects on a ground-mounted solar panel at different panel tilt angles and wind directions. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 213, 104630.
- You, J., Lim, M., You, K., & Lee, C. (2021). Wind Coefficient Distribution of Arranged Ground Photovoltaic Panels. Sustainability, 13(7), 3944.
- Leitch, C. J., J. D. Ginger, and J. D. Holmes. “Wind loads on solar panels mounted parallel to pitched roofs, and acting on the underlying roof.” Wind and Structures Journal 22.3 (2016): 307-328.
Atmospheric Boundary Layer:
- Hargreaves, D. M., & Wright, N. G. (2007). On the use of the k–ε model in commercial CFD software to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of wind engineering and industrial aerodynamics, 95(5), 355-369.
- Blocken, B., Stathopoulos, T., & Carmeliet, J. (2007). CFD simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer: wall function problems. Atmospheric environment, 41(2), 238-252.
- Yi Yang, Ming Gu, Suqin Chen, and Xinyang Jin. New inflow boundary conditions for modelling the neutral equilibrium atmospheric boundary layer in computational wind engineering. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 97(2):88–95, 2009.
