Power Kite Forum

Kite Design

joeblinky - 17-11-2015 at 05:36 PM

So I have been getting excited about R&D and I have decided to start applying things I am learning in school to the interest that seems to have bitten us all.

I found this website to start studying:

http://www.kitesurfingschool.org/kite.htm

Does anyone else know of any good resources? I am hoping to dive into physics/aerodynamics, make computational models, and CAD's and eventually CFD analysis. I will most likely be working with Matlab, Solidworks, and Star CCM+.

A lot of the stuff I see out there seems to be people rambling. I enjoy hearing people's stories but I would love to find some good freebody diagrams, governing equations and approaches to computational methods in this field.