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Airborne wind energy systems use tethered flying devices to harvest wind energy beyond the height range accessible to tower‐based wind turbines. Current commercial prototypes have reached power ratings of up to several hundred kilowatts, and companies are aiming at long‐term operation in relevant environments. As consequence, system reliability, operational robustness, and safety have become crucially...
In this paper, we present an aero‐structural model of a tethered swept wing for airborne wind energy generation. The carbon composite wing has neither fuselage nor actuated aerodynamic control surfaces and is controlled entirely from the ground using three separate tethers. The computational model is efficient enough to be used for weight optimisation at the initial design stage. The main load‐bearing...
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