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Benchmark Sea Trials on a 6-Meter Boat Powered by Kite

Authors :: Morgan Behrel
Jean-Baptiste Leroux
Paul Iachkine
Kostia Roncin
Centre de Recherche de l'École de l'air (CReA)
Armée de l'air et de l'espace
Halehau
Service Recherche et Développement, Quiberon (ECOLE NATIONALE DE VOILE)
Ecole Nationale de Voile
Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL)
Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 6148, p 6148 (2020), Applied Sciences, Applied Sciences, MDPI, 2020, 10 (18), pp.6148-1-6148-26. ⟨10.3390/app10186148⟩, Volume 10, Issue 18
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: MDPI AG, 2020.
Abstract: International audience; This paper presents sea trials on a 6-m boat specifically designed for kite propulsion. The kite control was automatic or manual, dynamic or static, depending on the point of sailing. The measurement system recorded boat motion and load generated by the kite. A particular attention was paid to wind measurement with several fixed and mobile locations directly on the kiteboat or in the vicinity. A high resolution weather modelling showed that a classical power law, describing the wind gradient, was not satisfactory to get the wind at kite location. 5-min measurement phases were systematically recorded. In the end, 101 runs were carried out. Data were processed with the phase-averaging method in order to produce reliable and accurate results. © 1996-2020 MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) unless otherwise stated