... solar radiation entering through an open (windowless) aperture, which also serves for the access of ambient air used as the heat transfer fluid flowing across the RPC structure. A heat transfer analysis of the solar receiver is performed by means of two coupled models: a Monte Carlo (MC) ray-tracing...

... April 29, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Akiba Segal. 30 04 2012 02 02 2013 The optical performance of a novel solar concentrator consisting of a 400 spherical heliostat array and a linked two-axis tracking system is analyzed using the Monte Carlo ray-tracing technique. The optical efficiency...

... and shown to be equivalent to the well-known Rayleigh distribution obtained by transforming the bivariate circular Gaussian distribution into polar coordinates. The corresponding inverse cumulative distribution function applied in Monte Carlo ray-tracing simulations, which gives the dispersion angle...