Class solar#

Nested Relationships#

Nested Types#

Inheritance Relationships#

Base Type#

Class Documentation#

class solar : public module_base#

Calculates solar position

Depends:

  • None

Provides:

  • Solar elevation “solar_el” [degrees]

  • Solar azimuth “solar_az” [degrees]

Provides:

  • Sky view view “svf” [-]

Configuration:

{
   "svf":
   {
      "steps": 10.
      "max_distance": 1000.0,
      "nsectors": 12,
      "compute": true
   }
}
steps#

Number of search steps

max_distance#

Maximum search distance

nsectors#

Number of azimuthal search bins

compute#

Compute the sky view factor

Type:

int

Default:

10

Default:

1000.0

Type:

int

Default:

12

Default:

true

Public Functions

solar(config_file cfg)#
~solar()#
virtual void run(mesh_elem &face)#

Needs to be implemented by each data parallel module. This will be called and executed for each timestep

Parameters:
  • face – The terrain element (triangle) to be worked upon for an element parallel domain

  • global_param – A pointer to the shared global paramter space with domain-wide paramters

virtual void init(mesh &domain)#
struct data : public face_info#

Public Members

double lat#
double lng#