Links

Solar energy

• American Solar Energy Society
• ASME Solar Energy Division
• IEA Task Compact Thermal Energy Storage
• IEA Task Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications
• The International Solar Energy Society
• SolarPACES
• Solar Rating and Certification Corporation

Heat and mass transfer

• ASME Heat Transfer Division
• International Centre for Heat & Mass Transfer

Optics

• SPIE — The International Society for Optics and Photonics
• The Optical Society of America

Journals

Solar energy

• Journal of Solar Energy Engineering—Transactions of the ASME
• Solar Energy

Heat and mass transfer

• Heat and Mass Transfer
• International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• Journal of Heat Transfer—Transactions of the ASME
• Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer
• Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Optics

• Optics InfoBase — Journals and proceedings of the Optical Society of America

Other web resources

Solar radiation

• SMARTS — Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine (at NREL)
• Solar spectra (at NREL)

Heat and mass transfer

• thermalHUB — Resources for the heat transfer community
• THERMOPEDIA^TM — A-to-Z Guide to Thermodynamics, Heat & Mass Transfer, and Fluids Engineering

Radiative transfer

• Catalog of view factors (by J.R. Howell)
• Computer codes and errata for the book Radiative Heat Transfer (by M.F. Modest)
• SI photometry units
• SI radiometry units

Current Sponsors

• National Science Foundation
• U.S. Department of Energy, ARPAe
• Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
• University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment