It is necessary for calculating the solar beam radiation on the tilted mirror or aperture for designing of solar thermal utilization.Linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) can be thought that smooth linear optical reflector is broken into segments.Every mirror segment or row of this kind concentrator needs to track the sun real time and reflects the sunlight to fixed linear receiver.Therefore
the incidence angle and the direction of reflected sunlight and tracking tilt-angle of every mirror row consequentially vary throughout the year
which makes the optical analysis
especially the calculation of the solar beam radiation received by full mirror field
very complexity.This paper firstly derived the equations of incidence angle and tracking inclination angle by vector analysis
and then computed the instantaneous solar beam radiation of all mirror elements.Finally
cumulated irradiation of whole mirror field during the available work was obtained.The algorithm of optimal tower highness of LFR mirror field was derived by analyzing excursion of reflecting sunlight.