Trough Asymmetric CPC

Here you can find the parameters definition for the Trough Asymmetric CPC concentrator. This geometry concentrates the radiation into a tube, but the tube is not created when the shape is added to Tonatiuh scene.

Figure 1. Trough Asymmetric CPC view.

Parameters

The parameter used to define the shape are:

• rInt: Absorber tube radius.
• rExt: Vacuum tube external radius.
• acceptanceAngleCW (θccw): Acceptance angle in clockwise direction (respect to the axis of the CPC).
• acceptanceAngleCCW (θccw): Acceptance angle in counterclockwise direction (respect to the axis of the CPC).
• truncationAngle (talpha): Truncation plane inclination respect to the horizontal axis.
• truncationOrigin (t0): Truncation plane origin height.
• length: Shape length in the z direction.

The following images show the scheme to identify this parameters:

Figure 2. Trough Asymmetric CPC scheme.

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