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feature ideas
Mike Wagner edited this page Mar 5, 2018
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This page contains a list of several ideas for new features for the software that haven't yet been assigned to a project.
- Feature enhancements to the SolTrace engine to better integrate with SolarPILOT. These enhancements include:
- A simple model for atmospheric scattering
- Improved technology-specific performance metrics
- Useful simulation structures such as virtual elements and compound element geometries that ease the definition of receiver apertures and internal surfaces
- Improved API functionality
- Support for user-specified receiver and heliostat geometries. This enables evaluation of non-rectangular heliostats and receivers with more complex geometry than flat-plate or cylindrical.
- Improved heliostat aim-point strategies. Target both the computational efficiency of the aiming algorithms and the uniformity of the resulting receiver flux distribution. Advanced aiming strategies should support multi-zone flux limitations.
- Improved plotting and data processing functionality. Develop a widget that allows interactive simulation via a field plot interface such that individual heliostats or groups of heliostats that can be evaluated and manipulated.