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NREL / bifacial_radiance

Toolkit for working with RADIANCE for the ray-trace modeling of Bifacial Photovoltaics
https://bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io
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how to create reflective surface and integrate with software codes #337

Open AgravatSM opened 3 years ago

AgravatSM commented 3 years ago

Trying to create reflective object following codes tried, object not behaving as reflector. Please suggest solution.

void trans mirror_mat 0 7 .92 .92 .92 .9 0 1 1

void mirror reflect20 0 0 3 .15 .2 .2

Is it integration issue with original codes? or is it the issue of mirror syntex?

cdeline commented 2 years ago

Could you please provide more detail about what is your scenario and what is the error? It seems that your materials are following the proper format as stated in the RADIANCE users manual here: https://floyd.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/usman2.pdf. I would expect that if those material options are included in your ground.rad file, then you could generate custom objects referencing those material names. It's possible that the reflectivity of your mirror material is too low, only 15-20% reflective wouldn't result in much beam reflection over a white albedo surface.