Electrical, thermal and structural performance of a cooled PV module: Transient analysis using a multiphysics model

Performance enhancement of solar photovoltaic cells using effective cooling methods: A review

“…Siddiqui and Arif [45] developed a multiphysics model for estimating the three dimensional thermal, structural and electrical performance of a PV module under given meteorological conditions. ANSYS CFX CFD software was used for the thermal modeling, the structural modeling had been done in ANSYS Mechanical FEA code and the electrical modeling had been developed in MATLAB environment.…”

Flat plate solar photovoltaic–thermal (PV/T) systems: A reference guide

“…A mathematical model and Matlab/Simulink simulation of a PV/T system, was carried out to study the electrical and thermal performance in a freezing factory [260]. A coupled multiphysics model to analyse the thermal, structural and electrical response to different operating conditions of a PV module with and without cooling was developed using ANSYS CFX, ANSYS Mechanical and MATLAB, respectively [261].…”

Thermal/Electrical Modeling of a PV Module as Enhanced by Surface Cooling

“…The amount of energy converting into electric power in the PV module is a function of the PV module efficiency, elec  as expressed by (8), which satisfies assumption 1 above.…”

“…1 [8] where R s is the very small series resistance, R sh is the quite large shunt resistance, and D is the ideal P-N diode. I ph is the generated photocurrent source which is influenced by the surface temperature and irradiation.…”

“…According to the physical property of P-N semiconductor, the I-V characteristic of a module consists of series-parallel combination of n cells is expressed as follows [8]:…”