RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Optical ray-tracing analysis of geometrical variations of a funnel solar cooker.
A1 Carrillo-Andrés, Antonio
A1 Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Xabier
A1 Jiménez-Navarro, Juan Pablo
A1 Rodrigues-Ruivo, Celestino
K1 Cocinas (Aparato)
K1 Energía solar
K1 Ingeniería sostenible
K1 Optica geométrica
AB Funnel solar cookers are simple, effective and have multiple advantages in practical use. The typology is wide but a large part of the existing designs are based on a 3D funnel-shaped concentrator assembled from a series of flat reflective panels. The optical performance of a funnel cooker design of this category has already been studied in a previous work.  However, there are some interesting geometric aspects that have never been investigated before. The typical funnel geometry has two degrees of freedom to define its shape. This generates a family of variations from the base geometry. The influence of these variations on the cooker optical performance is unknown. This work uses the open source Soltrace ray-tracing tool to improve the understandig of these aspects. This knowledge may be of interest to designers and also to practical users of the funnel solar cooker.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27340
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27340
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026