User's manual for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Thermal Pond Program (MITSOL)

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5451649

Atkinson, J; Adams, E; Salhotra, A; Harleman, R

MITSOL (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Pond Model) is a one-dimensional numerical model, written in FORTRAN, that may be used to predict transient vertical temperature and salinity profiles in a salt gradient solar pond. The formulation is based on a mixed-layer approach to modeling the vertical structure of a water body, and uses a finite difference explicit technique to solve basic salt and heat budget equations. A separate algorithm calculates wind-induced entrainment and subsequent deepening of the pond's upper mixed layer (or upper convecting zone). This report includes (1) a discussion of the main program and subroutines and functions, (2) a discussion of the input file and the model's output, (3) a sample test case for the model, (4) the FORTRAN code for the model, and (5) a complete glossary for the code.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA). Ralph M. Parsons Lab. for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10093
• OSTI ID: 5451649
• Report Number(s): SERI/STR-252-2679; ON: DE85012147
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
141000* -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
EQUIPMENT
F CODES
FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD
ITERATIVE METHODS
MANUALS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
PONDS
SALINITY GRADIENTS
SIMULATION
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR PONDS
SURFACE WATERS
TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION
WIND