Solar irradiation model plug-in for Rhinoceros Grasshopper. Simulates hourly annual time series of solar irradiance on mesh vertices.
Please refer to this publication for citation: Waibel et al. (2017)
Features:
- Perez (1987) all-weather solar model
- considers snow-coverage
- multi-layer tree approach according to Krayenhoff (2014)
- specular inter-reflections max 2 bounces
- diffuse inter-reflections max 1 bounce
Version 2 with better physics than version 1.
How to install:
- Check the releases here and put the SolarModel.dll and GHSolar.gha into your Rhino Grasshopper components folder.