Computational Kite Design | Development and Experimental Validation of Aero-Structural Simulation Models for Soft-Wing Kites

This is a meta-file upload, pointing to all the datasets, codebases and more that enable one to run each simulation described in the dissertation and recreate each code-generated plot. The geometric mesh of the TU Delft V3 kite is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15316036), on GitHub (https://github.com/awegroup/TUDELFT_V3_LEI_KITE), and through https://awegroup.github.io/TUDELFT_V3_KITE/, which contains further information and additional datasets. The wind tunnel load measurements are available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14288467), with the corresponding analysis code on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15316684) and GitHub (https://github.com/jellepoland/WES_load_wind_tunnel_measurements_TUDELFT_V3_LEI_KITE). The processed PIV measurements are available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17395913), with the corresponding analysis code on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17396075) and GitHub (https://github.com/jellepoland/kite_piv_analysis). The CFD data of Vire et al. (2022) are available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17395314). The code for the aerodynamic simulations for kite design is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18351808) and GitHub (https://github.com/jellepoland/WES_aero_sim_for_kite_design), with the supporting data on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18351331). These analyses rely on the vortex-step method, versions 2.0.2 and 2.1.2 (https://github.com/ocayon/Vortex-Step-Method); the latest version is available at https://github.com/awegroup/Vortex-Step-Method. The geometry, wind tunnel results, and polars for the Belloc (2015) validation case are available at https://github.com/fairaero/Belloc-validation-data. The code for Chapters 8 and 9 is available on GitHub (https://github.com/jellepoland/phd-dissertation-chapter-8 and https://github.com/jellepoland/phd-dissertation-chapter-9). The computational reproducibility of the wind tunnel and PIV studies was independently verified through the CODECHECK open-science initiative (Nust and Eglen, 2021); the certificates are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15603144 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18890103.