solarpy
This package aims to provide a reliable solar radiation model, mainly based on the work of Duffie, J.A., and Beckman, W. A., 1974, "Solar energy thermal processes".
https://github.com/aqreed/solarpy
Category: Renewable Energy
Sub Category: Photovoltaics and Solar Energy
Keywords
beam-irradiance flight-simulation modeling photovoltaic python simulation solar-cells solar-energy sun-position
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Solar radiation model for flight dynamics. Based on Duffie & Beckman "Solar energy thermal processes" (1974)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aqreed/solarpy
- Owner: aqreed
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-07-28T15:53:41.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-11-02T08:18:49.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-25T11:41:11.791Z (1 day ago)
- Topics: beam-irradiance, flight-simulation, modeling, photovoltaic, python, simulation, solar-cells, solar-energy, sun-position
- Language: Python
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- Size: 2.37 MB
- Stars: 56
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 12
- Open Issues: 9
- Releases: 0
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- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG
- License: COPYING
README.md
| Description | Python Solar Radiation model |
| Author | aqreed [email protected] |
| Version | 0.1.3 |
| Python Version | 3.6 |
| Requires | Numpy, Matplotlib |
This packages aims to provide a reliable solar radiation model, mainly based on the work of Duffie, J.A., and Beckman, W. A., 1974, "Solar energy thermal processes".
The main purpose is to generate a solar beam irradiance (W/m2) prediction on:
- any plane, thanks to the calculation of the solar vector in NED (North East Down) coordinates, suitable for its use in flight dynamics simulations...
- any place of the earth, taking into account the solar time wrt the standard time, geometric altitude, the latitude influence on solar azimuth and solar altitude as well as sunset/sunrise time and hour angle, etc.
- any day of the year, taking into account the variations of the extraterrestrial radiation, the equation of time, the declination, etc., throughout the year
Example 1
Solar irradiance on the southern hemisphere on October 17, at sea-level 13.01UTC (plane pointing upwards)?
import numpy as np
from solarpy import irradiance_on_plane
from datetime import datetime
vnorm = np.array([0, 0, -1]) # plane pointing zenith
h = 0 # sea-level
date = datetime(2019, 10, 17, 13, 1) # year, month, day, hour, minute
lat = -23.5 # southern hemisphere
irradiance_on_plane(vnorm, h, date, lat)
A dedicated Jupyter Notebook on beam irradiance can be found here.
Example 2
Power output (in W) of a solar panel with the following characteristics:
- surface of 2.1 sqm
- efficiency of 0.2
- pointing upwards
- in NYC
- on December 25, at 16.15
from numpy import array
from solarpy import solar_panel
from datetime import datetime
panel = solar_panel(2.1, 0.2, id_name='NYC_xmas') # surface, efficiency and name
panel.set_orientation(array([0, 0, -1])) # upwards
panel.set_position(40.73, -73.93, 0) # NYC latitude, longitude, altitude
panel.set_datetime(datetime(2019, 12, 25, 16, 15)) # Christmas Day!
panel.power()
Example 3
Solar declination on August 5?
from solarpy import declination
from datetime import datetime
date = datetime(2019, 8, 5) # August 5
declination(date)
Please find more notebooks on the 'examples' folder that you can open locally, or just try to launch online interactive Jupyter notebooks.
NOTE:
solarpy is under development and might change in the near future.
Dependencies
This package depends on Python, NumPy and Matplotlib and is usually tested on Linux with the following versions:
Python 3.6, NumPy 1.16, Matplotlib 3.0
Installation
solarpy has been written in Python3, and its version v0.1 is available in PyPi. It can be installed using:
$ pip install solarpy
To install in development mode:
$ git clone https://github.com/aqreed/solarpy.git
$ cd solarpy
$ pip install -e .
Testing
solarpy recommends py.test for running the test suite. Running from the top directory:
$ pytest
To test coverage (also from the top directory):
$ pytest --cov
Bug reporting
Please feel free to open an issue on GitHub!
License
MIT (see COPYING)
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- Description: MSc Aerospace Engineer & SW Developer. Modelling & Simulation (Flight Dynamics & CFD), and Numerical Analysis. Using Python, Julia, Matlab, Fortran and C/C++
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pypi.org: solarpy
Solar radiation model based on Duffie & Beckman "Solar energy thermal processes" (1974)
- Homepage: https://github.com/aqreed/solarpy
- Documentation: https://solarpy.readthedocs.io/
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 0.1.3 (published over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-25T11:30:53.920Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 4
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 2
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