Home

Drag in AWECS
Forum thread: M415
This folder of files is ever open for expansion and polishing by anyone.
The focus is on understanding the various roles drag plays in various AWECS.
E-mail:  Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

Starters:

• Drag bodies across the surface of the earth using the power of the wind converted to mechanical energy.
• Set an AWECS mooring in the ground to drag the the kite against the wind, else the kite would flow with the wind.
• Drag cargo freighters across oceans.  100% lift would take the ship nowhere; drag is essential to tugging ships with AWECS.
• The drag of a variDrogue can be used in oscillations to drive an AWECS yo-yo system.
• An AWECS ever has drag operating in it in several ways.
• Induced drag.
• Parasitic drag.
• Profile drag
• Put something in an fluid stream and drag will be part of the story.
• Use drag to advantage.
• Minimize drag where and when drag is not wanted so much, but increase drag when such is advantageous.
• Drag of a rotor blade is certainly not the only place that drag occurs in AWECS.
• http://energykitesystems.net/JoeFaust/AWE/draginawe/varidrague22.jpg
• Peter Adams  M425