Does AWE have something similar @rschmehl, or others? A feed of papers that were published over the last little while? https://youtu.be/qlas3TOi_CQ?t=915
Hi @Windy_Skies, haven’t followed the discussion here. Do you mean a feed of recently published papers about airborne wind energy?
hi @rschmehl, yes. Or / and, any place where one could reliably find most AWE papers, or a method to find them?
Hi @Windy_Skies
To my knowledge, there is no single place with a comprehensive and complete portfolio of AWE literature. It would be challenging to maintain because authors submit their manuscripts to different journals and conferences, of which some are indexed and some are not.
Here are a few sources that I know with a higher-density of AWE content
- Book of Abstracts of the Airborne Wind Energy Conferences - only one-page abstracts but with many illustrations.
- Wind Energy Science - the open access house journal of the European Academy of Wind Energy managed by Göttingen-based publisher Copernicus.
- Wind Energy - Wiley’s established wind energy journal.
- Renewable Energy - a journal published by Elsevier.
- Proceedings of the Torque conference, published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. For example the session on Small wind turbines, VAWTs, and novel concepts of Torque 2024.
- Proceedings of the European Control Conferences - as the name suggests, mainly focusing on control-related aspects of AWE.
There are of course more but I have to stop somewhere:-) Here are three collections of contributions on AWE:
- Airborne Wind Energy Systems - Special Issue with 23 contributions on AWE in the MDPI open access journal Energies, published in 2023.
- Airborne Wind Energy - Advances in Technology Development and Research - Book with 30 contributions on AWE, published by Springer in 2018.
- Airborne Wind Energy - Book with 35 contributions on AWE, published by Springer in 2013.
Easier is to use web search engines for scholarly literature:
- Google Scholar - gives the most comprehensive picture as it has low quality threshold for publications. I have searched here for the three keywords airborne wind energy which is an established common term. You might want to also look for keywords such as kites, high-altitude wind power etc. Free to use for everybody
- Web of Science by Clarivate - subscription required.
- Scopus by Elsevier - subscription required.
WoS and Scopus have higher quality measures, and not all journals and conferences are indexed in these databases. It takes some effort for a journal to get indexed, one needs to provide proof and details about the peer review process, the stability of the publication output etc.
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TU Delft Repository maintains a very large number of publications, including books of abstracts from different years: 408 results today by typing “airborne, wind” in “Search Results”.
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For open access (legitimate ip or not) maybe at your own risk try
https://annas-archive.org/search?index=journals&page=1&q=airborne+wind+energy&sort=
or
https://arxiv.org/search/?query=airborne+wind+energy&searchtype=all&source=header
or
I have kept a folder over the years in a kites investigations folder which now has 814 very random and loosely AWES files / publications
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