| Summary: | This research uses numerical methods to assess the efficiency of a floating solar panel on
the Old Brahmaputra River flowing through the Mymensingh City Corporation, Bangladesh. A
model was created and simulated using both Ansys and Matlab/Simulink using the data collected
from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Bangladesh Water
Development Board regarding water properties of the river and other ambient conditions of the
area to gauge the cell temperature of the system as a floating solar panel and a ground solar panel
and the pressure and motion, force acting on the pontoon which is later applied to assess the
research objective. Later, the total electricity output was measured using the cell temperature.
This research showed that a floating solar panel generates more electricity as the efficiency
increases by 2% compared to a ground solar panel in the same environment. Moreover, the result
also shows that, since the Old Brahmaputra River is a basin river, the wave force of the river is
not high enough to cause any significant damage to the system if installed as a flexible system.
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