People / Roland Schmehl
Principal investigator
Roland Schmehl
Associate professor | Airborne wind energy
- Institution
- Delft University of Technology
- Work packages
- In NEON
- 2020 onwards
- Now
- Associate professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (Wind Energy), Delft University of Technology
Leader of WP1a (airborne wind energy); promotor of Rishikesh Joshi and supervisor of Dylan Eijkelhof, Jelle Poland and Helena Schmidt.
Expertise: Airborne wind energy
Roland Schmehl leads the airborne wind energy research group at TU Delft's Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. His work covers the aerodynamics, structural dynamics, flight control and system design of tethered kite power systems.
About me
Personal Motivation
Profile text from the former NEON website.
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Publications and talks
- Flow field analysis of a leading-edge inflatable kite rigid-scale model using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (journal-article, 2026)
- Optimal flight pattern debate for airborne wind energy systems: circular or figure of eight? (journal-article, 2026)
- Predicting the community acceptance of airborne wind energy with the integrated acceptance model: Insights from two test sites (journal-article, 2026)
- Wind tunnel load measurements of a leading-edge inflatable kite rigid-scale model (journal-article, 2026)
- Aerodynamic analysis of a two-dimensional rigid leading edge inflatable airfoil (conference-paper, 2026)
- Dynamic aero-structural coupled circular flight simulations of soft kites (conference-paper, 2026)
- Fast finite element modelling of bridled leading-edge inflatable kites (conference-paper, 2026)
- In-flight measurement of large-scale deformations of a soft-wing kite (conference-paper, 2026)
- Computational aerodynamics for soft-wing kite design (report, 2026)
- Resident Perceptions of an Onshore Airborne Wind Energy Test Site in Ireland: Survey Data (dataset, 2026)
- Supporting dataset to analysis code, use to generate figures for the paper: "Computational aerodynamics for leading-edge inflatable kite design" (dataset, 2026)
- Computational aerodynamics for soft-wing kite design (software, 2026)
- Exploring noise annoyance and sound quality for airborne wind energy systems: insights from a listening experiment (journal-article, 2025)
- System design and scaling trends in airborne wind energy demonstrated for a ground-generation concept (journal-article, 2025)
- Data of Wind Tunnel Load Measurements of TUDELFT_V3_KITE Rigid Scale Model (dataset, 2025)
- Noise Annoyance Ratings for Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Data from a Controlled Listening Experiment (dataset, 2025)
- Supporting data set for paper: Flow Field Analysis of a Leading-Edge Inflatable Kite Rigid Scale Model Using Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (dataset, 2025)
- How do residents perceive energy-producing kites? Comparing the community acceptance of an airborne wind energy system and a wind farm in Germany (journal-article, 2024)
- Power curve modelling and scaling of fixed-wing ground-generation airborne wind energy systems (journal-article, 2024)
- The potential role of airborne and floating wind in the North Sea region (journal-article, 2024)
- A virtual wind tunnel for deforming airborne wind energy kites (conference-paper, 2024)
- Noisy Kites? Exploring Noise Annoyance for Airborne Wind Energy Systems with a Laboratory Listening Experiment (conference-paper, 2024)
- Power smoothing by kite tether force control for megawatt-scale airborne wind energy systems (conference-paper, 2024)
- Will it Fly? An Interactive Role-Playing Game for Exploring Social Conflicts in Airborne Wind Energy Siting (conference-paper, 2024)
- Winch Sizing for Ground-Generation Airborne Wind Energy Systems (conference-paper, 2024)
- Survey data on residents' assessment of an airborne wind energy system in Germany (dataset, 2024)
- Low- and High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Simulations of Box Wing Kites for Airborne Wind Energy Applications (journal-article, 2023)
- Modelling Aero-Structural Deformation of Flexible Membrane Kites (journal-article, 2023)
- Sizing of Hybrid Power Systems for Off-Grid Applications Using Airborne Wind Energy (journal-article, 2023)
- Value-Driven System Design of Utility-Scale Airborne Wind Energy (journal-article, 2023)
- Six-degrees-of-freedom simulation model for future multi-megawatt airborne wind energy systems (journal-article, 2022)
- The Social Acceptance of Airborne Wind Energy: A Literature Review (journal-article, 2022)
- Airborne Wind Energy Development Database (conference-paper, 2022)
- Social Acceptance of Airborne Wind Energy (conference-paper, 2022)
- Techno-economic analysis of power smoothing solutions for pumping airborne wind energy systems (conference-paper, 2022)
- Reference Design and Simulation Framework of a Multi-Megawatt Airborne Wind Energy System (conference-paper, 2020)