Dadd, George M.; Hudson, Dominic A.; Shenoi, R.A. - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 10, pp. 2667-2678
For application of kites to ships for power and propulsion, a scheme for predicting time averaged kite forces is required. This paper presents a method for parameterizing figure of eight shape kite trajectories and for predicting kite velocity, force and other performance characteristics....