Aeroelastic energy harvesting: A review

A Abdelkefi - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting is the process by which light, thermal, solar, and kinetic energy can be
converted to a usable form of energy with the ultimate objective of develo** self-powered …

A comprehensive review of nonlinear oscillators in hydrokinetic energy harnessing using flow-induced vibrations

Y Lv, L Sun, MM Bernitsas, H Sun - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of hydrokinetic energy converters based on alternating lift
technology (ALT) is provided. Emphasis is on nonlinear oscillators based on Flow Induced …

Efficiency investigation on energy harvesting from airflows in HVAC system based on gallo** of isosceles triangle sectioned bluff bodies

J Wang, L Tang, L Zhao, Z Zhang - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Gallo**-based piezoelectric energy harvester (GPEH) has been used in power generation
from small-scale airflows for low-power devices such as Micro-Electromechanical Systems …

Energy harvesting from transverse gallo**

A Barrero-Gil, G Alonso, A Sanz-Andres - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2010 - Elsevier
Some elastic bluff bodies under the action of a fluid flow can experience transverse
gallo** and lose stability if the flow velocity exceeds a critical value. For flow velocities …

Low velocity water flow energy harvesting using vortex induced vibration and gallo**

W Sun, D Zhao, T Tan, Z Yan, P Guo, X Luo - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The oceans, seas, rivers and channels store abundant renewable low velocity flow energy
but without large-scale exploitation. For energy harvesting, the vortex induced vibration (VIV) …

Flow induced motion and energy harvesting of bluff bodies with different cross sections

L Ding, L Zhang, C Wu, X Mao, D Jiang - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The flow induced motion (FIM) and energy conversion of cylinders with different cross
sections are investigated using two-dimensional unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier …

Piezoelectric wind energy harvester for low-power sensors

J Sirohi, R Mahadik - Journal of Intelligent Material Systems …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
There has been increasing interest in wireless sensor networks for a variety of outdoor
applications including structural health monitoring and environmental monitoring …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from transverse gallo** of bluff bodies

A Abdelkefi, MR Hajj, AH Nayfeh - Smart Materials and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of harvesting energy from transverse gallo** oscillations of a bluff body with
different cross-section geometries is investigated. The energy is harvested by attaching a …

Comparison of modeling methods and parametric study for a piezoelectric wind energy harvester

L Zhao, L Tang, Y Yang - Smart materials and Structures, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Harvesting flow energy by exploiting transverse gallo** of a bluff body attached to a
piezoelectric cantilever is a prospective method to power wireless sensing systems. In order …

Numerical simulation and experimental validation for energy harvesting of single-cylinder VIVACE converter with passive turbulence control

L Ding, L Zhang, MM Bernitsas, CC Chang - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Flow Induced Motions (FIM) of a single, rigid, circular cylinder on end-springs are
investigated for Reynolds number 30,000< Re< 110,000. Passive Turbulence Control (PTC) …