Thank you for your comment. Tonatiuh is mostly an analysis tool. As such, it can be used in many ways. For most solar thermal concentrating systems the simplifications of geometric optics are appropriate to estimate where the solar energy goes within the system, this justifies the ray tracing approach. What you say about the desing of the absorber is right. For every design alternative you may want to explore, Tonatiuh may just help you by saying where the solar energy go, no more, no less.
This reminds me of elementary Mechanics class kinetic energy reframing drills. 2 raytracers to check v. geometric intuitions and their differential description of the lit field, and poorly defined relevance for all that computing power. There isn't even an eigenfunction on the absorber given; one just keeps raytracing and processing text files?! Why? At least Manuel mentioned the absorber! Is it not the main point to design that suitably against re-emitting, reflecting, or distortion?
Thank you for your comment. Tonatiuh is mostly an analysis tool. As such, it can be used in many ways. For most solar thermal concentrating systems the simplifications of geometric optics are appropriate to estimate where the solar energy goes within the system, this justifies the ray tracing approach. What you say about the desing of the absorber is right. For every design alternative you may want to explore, Tonatiuh may just help you by saying where the solar energy go, no more, no less.
TonatiuhRaytracer 1 year ago
This reminds me of elementary Mechanics class kinetic energy reframing drills. 2 raytracers to check v. geometric intuitions and their differential description of the lit field, and poorly defined relevance for all that computing power. There isn't even an eigenfunction on the absorber given; one just keeps raytracing and processing text files?! Why? At least Manuel mentioned the absorber! Is it not the main point to design that suitably against re-emitting, reflecting, or distortion?
Cineenvenordquist 1 year ago