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Solar Radiation

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In this final chapter, solar radiation and aspects of its nature that are important in solar energy engineering will be discussed. The results concerning radiative transfer of entropy and energy, and spectral distributions of radiation derived in Chapter 12 will be made use of.

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Fuchs, H.U. (2010). Solar Radiation. In: The Dynamics of Heat. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7604-8_17

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