How can we carry out a solar radiation simulation on a PV panel in Fluent?

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Muhammad Uzair

Do you want to include solar radiations OR enclosure method to cover PV panels?

Check these 2 links...

http://www.afs.enea.it/project/neptunius/docs/fluent/html/ug/node481.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEzvVhhYqCc

Ahmed S. Mansour

Thanks sir, I wanna know the method of carrying out the setup in design modeler like this paper

Samba Sowe

See if this link helps.

Thanks