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SolarPILOT power tower layout and optimization tool
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Load SolarPILOT field performance error #71

Open qualand opened 3 years ago

qualand commented 3 years ago

Bug description: If an user:

  1. Generates a solar field
  2. Saves the file
  3. Closes SolarPILOT
  4. Reopens SolarPILOT
  5. Loads previous made file (in step 2)
  6. Simulates performance The receiver flux profile generated in step 6 differs slightly to that if the user generates a solar field and simulates performance without the steps outlined above.

Benchmark difference: (using SP default parameter values)

Flux Profile when field is generated then simulated: generate_then_simulate System Summary Table generate_then_simulate_res_table

Flux Profile generated using steps 1-6 above: load_then_simulate System Summary Table: load_then_simulate_res_table