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The NASA General-Use Nodal Network Solver (GUNNS) software
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MPP in GunnsElectPvArray is wrong #90

Closed jasonlharvey closed 4 months ago

jasonlharvey commented 1 year ago

Several problems in GunnsElectPvArray that need fixing & improving:

We are not modeling the maximum power point correctly. The maximum power should be efficiency area solar flux, but we are incorrectly modeling efficiency relative to the product of Isc*Voc. Also, since most arrays operate at or below the MPP voltage, the GunnsElectPvArray really only models the array's I-V curve as a line segment between the short-circuit and MPP points. That's fine, however we don't allow the user to specify the Isc point - instead they can only specify Voc, which is only useful for the other side of the MPP than what we actually need, so this is a bit unhelpful.