Multiple Wake Vortex Lattice Method for Airborne Wind Energy Membrane-Wing Kites (poster)

FSI of Inflatable Kite Wings (poster)

A novel fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulation framework is being developed at the KitePower group of TU Delft. Developing an FSI simulator suitable for the kite problem has to take into account the following factors.

Pumping kites wind farm (poster)

Feed-Forward Control of Kite Power Systems

Kite power technology is a novel solution to harvest wind energy from altitudes that can not be reached by conventional wind turbines. The use of a lightweight but strong tether in place of an expensive tower provides an additional cost advantage, next to the higher capacity factor. This paper describes a method to estimate the wind velocity at...