Solar Energy Laboratory Faculty and Students
Faculty
Dr. Gary C. Vliet
Students
Graduate
Derek Baker, Mechanical Engineering
- Scaling of Solar Hot Water Systems. Supported by NREL and LCRA
- Basic research on the mechanism of CaCO(3) scaling in hot water.
- Development of software to predict scaling on solar hot water systems.
Vibhav Gupta, Operations Research
- Validation of satellite derived insolation data with ground-based measurements.
- Quality control of instrumentation and data. Maintenance of instruments and
- software