The Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi, India, which is engaged in advanced engineering research, has investigated convective cooling and thermal profiling of free-standing solar photovoltaic modules. IIT Delhi has implemented and validated a multi-cell CFD model to analyze module thermal behavior under varying wind speeds and angles. The study has shown that steady-state and transient temperature results were differing by no more than 0.7°C, except during abrupt irradiance changes. Time constants of PV modules were measured as 4.9 minutes at 1 m/s wind speed and 3.8 minutes at 3 m/s wind speed. Wind angle was influencing average cell temperature by up to 1.1°C, while correlation coefficients above 0.83 were observed across wind speeds. Flow separation and vortex formation were significantly increasing convection, with one side experiencing up to 1.8 times higher cooling. These results have provided important insights for evaluating cooling approaches in field operating conditions.