New preprint on large-eddy simulation of airborne wind energy farms

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@tallakt

Im worried radius-to-wingspan ratio of 1.67… is that slightly realistic?

In particular, we consider large-scale multi-megawatt systems operating in both lift and drag modes and align our design with the proposed utility-scale system targets unveiled by the companies Ampyx Power (Kruijff and Ruiterkamp, 2018) and Makani Power (Makani Power, 2012).

I think your question is out of the scope of this research. It looks like the authors just copied the specs from other publications, so the question is probably more relevant to those.

I also don’t think it is so interesting which specific architecture they simulated as we can’t look into the future to see which specific architecture is going to fly. I would have chosen something big anyway to see an effect at all and to be able to see the effects of manipulating variables, and to have my research actually be relevant to large scale systems.