Annualized Solar Diffuse Radiance Energy Distribution Simulation for Concentrator Design

This work implements the Igawa anisotropic diffuse radiance model with TMY3 dataset to generate annualized diffuse radiance energy distribution map that covers the whole United States region. This first-order simulation accounts for different geographic locations and weather conditions and aims to provide high accuracy reference for efficient energy-production-oriented concentrator designs. Preliminary diffuse concentration simulations are conducted based on the modeled diffuse radiance energy distribution map.