Engineering

Math & Physics The purest of sciences go here. CAD & Simulation Make it virtually before building it. Blade design The torque, the rps, the airfoils… Flight Control As if anything was under control. Crosswind Kites / Planes The kites that go wooooooooosh, wooooooooooooosh, wooooooooooosh. (Please someone write decent category descriptions!) Electronics Zapp. Soldering. PCBs… all that stuff… Generators & Gearing Go get that power! Electrifying! Lifters / Pilot kites Get the Lift! Lifting things. That boulder just outside of geostat orbit goes here. Manufacturing Making it a reality! Ground station Design of ground stations. See also the “Power Transmission”,“Generators & Gearing” and “Electronics” categories for subsystems of ground stations. Power Transmission conductive tethers, tethers for winching systems, rope-drives, rotating shafts, and more System Design Looking at the structure of whole systems.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Engineering category Engineering	1	164	November 16, 2018
Overspeed protection System Design	3	117	January 26, 2021
Reversible kite Crosswind Kites / Planes	10	137	January 25, 2021
Scaling in numbers rather than size Engineering	56	1225	January 25, 2021
Magenn Crosswind Kites / Planes	167	3494	January 24, 2021
Designed flexible kite for depower in yo-yo mode System Design	4	48	January 20, 2021
Launching soft kites Engineering	8	175	January 19, 2021
Using a lifter kite as a low aspect ratio power kite System Design	4	54	January 14, 2021
Scaling by size Engineering	72	1289	January 12, 2021
Calculating drag [+lectures and books on Fluid Mechanics] Math & Physics drag	12	623	January 6, 2021
LTA Assisted Launch Lifters / Pilot kites	0	43	January 5, 2021
Solar kytoons System Design	1	67	January 5, 2021
Crosswind paths allowing to use a larger powerkite for a same tether length Flight Control	0	49	January 1, 2021
Backfly Flight Control	38	464	December 25, 2020
AWES materials Manufacturing	2	68	December 21, 2020
Flygen Power Transmission	42	1212	December 17, 2020
AWE / HAWT hybrid systems System Design	1	74	December 13, 2020
Tensairity, and a tensairity torus idea System Design	20	140	December 12, 2020
A large diameter ring style generator? Generators & Gearing	11	288	December 11, 2020
Land Use Under AWES Operations System Design	29	1106	December 5, 2020
3D Aouinian kinematics Engineering wiki	3	107	December 5, 2020
Underwater Kites (Paravanes) System Design	22	964	November 26, 2020
Research by Markus Sommerfeld on Ground-generation and Offshore and onshore ground-generation airborne wind energy power curve characterization System Design	0	73	November 20, 2020
VLAV Vacuum Lighter than air lifting device options System Design	6	82	November 16, 2020
Kite Turbine Ground-Station Ground station	7	100	November 15, 2020
Ideas for scaling up AWES based on a tethered airborne rotor driving a rope drive System Design	69	643	November 12, 2020
Rotating AWE systems Crosswind Kites / Planes	105	1145	November 8, 2020
What is possible with Payne's patent US3987987 figure 5? System Design	109	2527	October 31, 2020
"Design and Optimisation Framework of a Multi-MW Airborne Wind Energy Reference System" System Design	4	207	October 30, 2020
Supercapacitors increasingly preferred for wind power Electronics supercapacitor	2	95	October 27, 2020