Hi all, I hope this gets through, as I've already attempted to post to this list, though I suspect it was too soon after I signed up. My name is Jeff Cumpston and i am a PhD student working with solar-thermal concentrators for power generation at the Australian National University. I have some experience with working with TRNSYS in modelling the annual performance of PV and solar-thermal systems. TRNSYS is a component-based numerical simulator with a graphical frontend, written in fortran. It allows users to piece together complicated systems by adding and linking relatively simple components through the GUI.
ASCEND has a similar approach as TRNSYS in the simulation of complicated systems. It would be great to see a large library of renewable energy components available with ASCEND. For this reason, I am eager to participate in the GSOC project and work on creating these components. This would be a great opportunity for me to familiarise myself with ASCEND and to ensure that it has the functionality that I should require as my PhD progresses. I also have experience with programming in python, particularly for numerical modelling, and an expert understanding of the physical phenomena that will be modelled in ASCEND renewable energy components. I'm excited by the prospect of working with an open source community. As this is my first correspondence, I'm wondering if any of you have any questions for me or comments/suggestions that you would like to make about this aspect of the ASCEND project. Thanks for your time, -- Jeff Cumpston PhD Candidate Solar Thermal Group Department of Engineering Building 32, The Australian National University Ph: +61 2 6125 3072 Fax: +61 2 6125 0506 Mob: +61 2 423 456 669 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
