LordMicidial
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This is the original thread: PVHI - Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect - Modelling with WRF
I hope cross-posting is allowed, Cheng suggested me to double check about WRF Solar- As per my understanding, nothing changes.
Dear all, eminent scientists, aspiring scientists,
I am a miserable engineer passionate about mathematical models applied to the environmental field. Actually I work for the nascent photovoltaic industry, agrivoltaics to be picky.
In the course of the permitting process for a agrivoltaic plant (20 MW) we would like to build, the public agency asked me to build a mathematical model using a list of possible models including WRF. So I am here in the dedicated forum.
I have some fortrun background and as a side business I sometimes do fire modeling with FDS, so broadly speaking I can say that I speak a language similar to yours.
Doing several searches, on the forum and online, I don't seem to have ever found a model done with WRF for a utility scale PV system.
I am even convincing myself that this would be a poor choice since WRF is a model that works on geographic scales far beyond those of a “small” plant like the one I am making (22 hectares). Moreover, I am even more convinced that given the scale it would be very difficult and perhaps computationally impossible to predict even the variations between Agrivoltaic and Photovoltaic.
What do you think? Am I an inexperienced fool? Or do I occasionally guess? This time I am really convinced that the guy employed at authorizing body has read the scientific literature in an uncomputational way.
Greetings
I hope cross-posting is allowed, Cheng suggested me to double check about WRF Solar- As per my understanding, nothing changes.
Dear all, eminent scientists, aspiring scientists,
I am a miserable engineer passionate about mathematical models applied to the environmental field. Actually I work for the nascent photovoltaic industry, agrivoltaics to be picky.
In the course of the permitting process for a agrivoltaic plant (20 MW) we would like to build, the public agency asked me to build a mathematical model using a list of possible models including WRF. So I am here in the dedicated forum.
I have some fortrun background and as a side business I sometimes do fire modeling with FDS, so broadly speaking I can say that I speak a language similar to yours.
Doing several searches, on the forum and online, I don't seem to have ever found a model done with WRF for a utility scale PV system.
I am even convincing myself that this would be a poor choice since WRF is a model that works on geographic scales far beyond those of a “small” plant like the one I am making (22 hectares). Moreover, I am even more convinced that given the scale it would be very difficult and perhaps computationally impossible to predict even the variations between Agrivoltaic and Photovoltaic.
What do you think? Am I an inexperienced fool? Or do I occasionally guess? This time I am really convinced that the guy employed at authorizing body has read the scientific literature in an uncomputational way.
Greetings
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