Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems

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Free Online Course: Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems provided by Udemy is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4-5 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Thermal Modeling of Solar Energy Systems is taught by Ron Behee.

Overview
  • Learn to model thermal systems with solar heating and realistic worldwide weather data

    What you'll learn:

    • by the end of this course you will be able to use the software for simple solar heating thermal models

    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.