Computation of the Lambert W function in photovoltaic modeling
Computation of the Lambert W function in photovoltaic modeling
Recently, the Lambert W function has emerged as a valuable mathematical tool in photovoltaic (PV) modeling and other scientific fields. This increasing interest is because it can be used to reformulate the implicit equations of the single-diode PV model into explicit form. However, the computation of the Lambert W function itself is still not clear in the literature; some studies use the iterative built-in functions in MATLAB or other computational platforms, while others adopt their own approximation formulae. This paper takes a deeper look at the ways the Lambert W function is evaluated in PV models and carries out a comparative study to assess the most commonly used methods in terms of accuracy, computational cost, and application range. These alternatives are implemented in a modern computer and a typical microcontroller to evaluate their performance in both simulations and embedded applications. The analysis concludes that some series expansions are good options for PV modeling applications, requiring less execution time than the built-in MATLAB lambertw function and exhibiting negligible approximation error.
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Batzelis, Efstratios I.
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Anagnostou, Georgios
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Chakraborty, Chandan
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Pal, Bikash C.
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2020
Batzelis, Efstratios I.
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Anagnostou, Georgios
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Chakraborty, Chandan
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Pal, Bikash C.
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Batzelis, Efstratios I., Anagnostou, Georgios, Chakraborty, Chandan and Pal, Bikash C.
(2020)
Computation of the Lambert W function in photovoltaic modeling.
Zamboni, Walter and Petrone, Giovanni
(eds.)
In ELECTRIMACS 2019 - Selected Papers - Volume 1.
vol. 604,
Springer.
.
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37161-6_44).
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Recently, the Lambert W function has emerged as a valuable mathematical tool in photovoltaic (PV) modeling and other scientific fields. This increasing interest is because it can be used to reformulate the implicit equations of the single-diode PV model into explicit form. However, the computation of the Lambert W function itself is still not clear in the literature; some studies use the iterative built-in functions in MATLAB or other computational platforms, while others adopt their own approximation formulae. This paper takes a deeper look at the ways the Lambert W function is evaluated in PV models and carries out a comparative study to assess the most commonly used methods in terms of accuracy, computational cost, and application range. These alternatives are implemented in a modern computer and a typical microcontroller to evaluate their performance in both simulations and embedded applications. The analysis concludes that some series expansions are good options for PV modeling applications, requiring less execution time than the built-in MATLAB lambertw function and exhibiting negligible approximation error.
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Published date: 2020
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Dr. E. Batzelis? work has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 746638. The rest of the authors? work has been conducted as part of the research project ?Joint UK-India Clean Energy Centre (JUICE)? which is funded by the RCUK?s Energy Programme (contract no: EP/P003605/1).
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13th International Conference of the IMACS TC1 Committee, ELECTRIMACS 2019, , Salerno, Italy, 2019-05-21 - 2019-05-23
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Efstratios I. Batzelis
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Georgios Anagnostou
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Chandan Chakraborty
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Bikash C. Pal
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Walter Zamboni
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Giovanni Petrone
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