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Kite dynamics for ship propulsion
No full textKite propulsion has emerged as an attractive means to harness wind power in a way that yields environmental and financial benefits. An understanding of the dynamics that affect kite motion and the resulting forces is required to facilitate the design and optimization of kite propulsion systems. In this thesis results from two line tension models are compared with experimentally recorded time histories for dynamic kite flight. New methodologies for investigating kite performance are established. The first zero mass model assumes that the kite and lines are weightless. The second, lumped mass model, considers the kites mass and thus makes use of the equations of motion. It is found that the two different models converge to the same result in the limit where the kite mass tends to zero. The zero mass model has been shown to compare favourably with experimental results. A method for parameterising figure of eight shape kite trajectories and for predicting kite velocity is presented. Results are shown for a variety of manoeuvre shapes, assuming realistic performance characteristics from an experimental test kite. Using a 320m2 kite, with 300m long flying lines in 6.18ms
Historical Context and Philosophy of Science: Reply to Peter Simons' 'Coincidence and Kite-Flying'
Get PDFThis essay responds to a review of my book Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World by Peter Simons that appears in the March 2009 issue of the journal Metascience
Kite Tales
No full text“For me, the joy of kiting lies in that fine sense of extension, in the fact that you have, almost literally, a hand reaching into the sky.” – Wyatt Brummit, author of Kites, 1971
The sight of multiple colourful kites can be breathtaking, and in some of our cultures they can symbolise the connection between the living and loved ones who have passed on.
Across ‘KITE TALES’ Giles King and Ciaran Clarke held space and created acts of remembrance, reflection and recreation with kites. Across a series of kite-building workshops — as well as conversations centred around life and death — this project looked to the skies, reimagining death rituals, connecting our kites with memories, the living, and the spirit world through engagement with these who have lost loved ones. This engagement took place via death cafes as well as facilitated, recorded conversations across the kite-building workshops.
The project culminated in a celebratory event at Mount Pleasant Ecological Park near Porthtowan. The visual and sound event saw 100’s of kites soaring into the sky above Cornwall, creating a beautiful spectacle of people coming together in celebration of life
quantum-kite/kite: Kite version 1.0
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Welcome to the KITE v1.0.
KITE is an open-source Python/C++ software suitable for Large-Scale Tight-Binding (TB) quantum transport calculations.
The code is shipped with the following capabilities:
Quantum Transport: longitudinal and transverse DC conductivities at zero and finite temperature;
Optical Properties: AC longitudinal conductivity;
Optical Properties: nonlinear optical susceptibility;
Electronic Structure: high-resolution density of states (DoS) in clean and disordered systems;
Electronic Structure: local density of states and ARPES;
Special Features: automated magnetic field in 2D;
Special Features: lattice perturbations (e.g., strain) and 'disorder cell' concept for implementation of multi-orbital/-bond impurities;
Algorithms: ultra-high-resolution CPGF full spectral (DoS);
Algorithms: high-resolution CPGF full spectral (finite temperature response functions);
Algorithms: ultra-high-resolution CPGF single-shot (zero temperature DC conductivity)
For further details on the algorithm and the implementation please consult ArXiv:1910.05194
Getting Started
For understanding the main functionalities of the code, how to setup a model and evaluate the KITE target functions, we suggest you to check the tutorial Getting Started.
More advanced calculations are explained in Examples. After downloading the repository, you can find the python scripts used throughout the tutorial under the examples folder.
Contributors
If you would like to collaborate with us on the KITE project fill free to send us a message through the Contact form.
Authors
Simão M. João, João V. Lopes (Universidade do Porto), Tatiana G. Rappoport (Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro), Miša Anđelković, Lucian Covaci (University of Antwerp) and Aires Ferreira (University of York).
License
This project is licensed under the GPL v3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
Acknowledgments
KITE's open source project was funded by The Royal Society through grant NA150043 "Efficient Numerical Solver for Spin, Charge and Optical Conductivity" (T. Rappoport and A. Ferreira). KITE's team thanks the partial support from EPSRC (A. Ferreira, U York), The Royal Society (UF130385) and FLAG-ERA (TRANS2DTMD, M. Anđelković and L. Covaci, U Antwerp). We thank Miguel Dias Costa (HPC expert, NUS, Singapore) and Julia Giannella (Web Designer) for technical support
Queensland Symphony Orchestra WAVE Project ft. Kite String Tangle
No full textResearch background: Collaboration between symphony orchestra and electronic artist/producer. Introducing a 'classical' orchestra to Electronic fan base (& vice versa).
Research contribution: The use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings. Taking existing source material (KST's Electronic songs) and orchestrating to be performed with symphony orchestra. Performance is quasi-improvisatory, so different each time it is performed.
Research significance: Introducing a 'classical' orchestra to electronic artist/producer fan base (& vice versa) breaking down silos of music genres.
Professionally reviewed: https://scenestr.com.au/music/the-kite-string-tangle-brisbane-review-brisbane-powerhouse-20180424No Full Tex
Kite Tales - Audio Piece
No full textAcross a series of kite-building workshops in which kites were created in memory of a loved one, and the subsequent kite-flying celebration day, participants were interviewed about the process of making their kites. This audio piece is a compilation of extracts from these conversations
Rodney Kite-Powell Oral History Interview
No full textRodney Kite-Powell, Director of the Touchton Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center and author, provides an overview of downtown Tampa in the 1900s. He discusses the role of landmarks like the Tampa Theatre and the Florida Hotel in shaping downtown Tampa\u27s vibrancy. Kite-Powell highlights the decline experienced in the 1970s and 1980s, and the city leaders\u27 efforts toward redevelopment. He addresses accessibility issues that once limited downtown activity and notes how growing historical awareness spurred preservation efforts. Regarding the Tampa Theatre, Kite-Powell explores its origins as a silent theater and the later installation of air conditioning, underscoring its significance as a symbol of Tampa and a testament to successful preservation endeavors
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[News Clip: Kite flying]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about initiates to Texas Christian University's Kappa Alpha Theta sorority going kite flying
A KITE Zrt. áruinak bekerülési értéke és az azok értékében bekövetkező változások
No full textA szakdolgozat bemutatja, hogy a nádudvari KITE zRt.-nél hogyan kerül meghatározásra az áruk bekerülési értéke, milyen nyilvántartási árat alkalmaznak, emellett az áruk selejtezése, és leértékelése is bemutatásra kerül. A KITE zRt. alközpontjai egész Magyarországot lefedik. Az üzletágak a kizárólagos készletgazdák, így ezek ismertetésére is sor került. A bekerülési érték részletezése belföldi és külföldi beszerzés esetén is megtörtént. A nyilvántartási áraknál a vizsgálatom célja az volt, hogy ajánlható-e jobb módszer a nyilvántartási árra a KITE zRt-nek. A jelenleg használt FIFO módszer mellett vizsgálatom kiterjedt a HIFO módszerre, folyó átlagáras, valamint az éves átlagáras módszerre. A leértékeléssel és selejtezéssel kapcsolatos ismeretek is bemutatásra kerültek. Végül a göngyölegek ismertetésére került sor.pénzügy számvitelBs
Justice Marilyn Kite Interview
No full textIn this oral history interview, the Honorable Marilyn S. Kite sits down with Cristina Salazar and Shelby Nivitanont to share some stories from her life. From growing up in Wyoming, to attending the University of Wyoming College of Law, cutting her teeth as a natural resources trial attorney at Holland & Hart, raising her family in Jackson, and becoming Wyoming\u27s first woman on the Wyoming Supreme Court and as the Chief Justice, Marilyn Kite shares from her vast experiences.https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/wyomingoralhistory/1001/thumbnail.jp
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