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 developing self-powered …

A review on flow energy harvesters based on flapping foils

Q Xiao, Q Zhu - Journal of fluids and structures, 2014 - Elsevier
This article presents an overview of the state of the art investigations on the recently
developed oscillating foil energy converters. A summary of available knowledge and up-to …

Harvesting ambient wind energy with an inverted piezoelectric flag

S Orrego, K Shoele, A Ruas, K Doran, B Caggiano… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper describes an experimental study of wind energy harvesting by self-sustained
oscillations (flutter) of a flexible piezoelectric membrane fixed in a novel orientation called …

[PDF][PDF] Lawn structured triboelectric nanogenerators for scavenging sweeping wind energy on rooftops

L Zhang, B Zhang, J Chen, L Jin, W Deng… - Advanced …, 2016 - bmm.tju.edu.cn
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201504462 consist of indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) thin film, the laminar TENGs array holds a kelp forest morphology and …

Flutter-driven triboelectrification for harvesting wind energy

J Bae, J Lee, SM Kim, J Ha, BS Lee, YJ Park… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Technologies to harvest electrical energy from wind have vast potentials because wind is
one of the cleanest and most sustainable energy sources that nature provides. Here we …

Energy harvesting efficiency of piezoelectric flags in axial flows

S Michelin, O Doaré - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
Self-sustained oscillations resulting from fluid–solid instabilities, such as the flutter of a
flexible flag in axial flow, can be used to harvest energy if one is able to convert the solid …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder: Effect of Reynolds number

M Zhang, C Zhang, A Abdelkefi, H Yu, O Gaidai, X Qin… - Ocean engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effects of the Reynolds number on the piezoelectric energy
harvesting from vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) of a circular cylinder. The VIV-based …

Energy harvesting efficiency of unimorph piezoelectric acoustic black hole cantilever shunted by resistive and inductive circuits

H Li, O Doaré, C Touzé, A Pelat, F Gautier - International Journal of Solids …, 2022 - Elsevier
A unimorph piezoelectric cantilever equipped with an Acoustic Black Hole (ABH) termination
is designed for broadband energy harvesting. The ABH termination, with its tapered region …

Energy harvesting by means of flow-induced vibrations on aerospace vehicles

D Li, Y Wu, A Da Ronch, J Xiang - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the design, implementation, and demonstration of energy harvesting
devices that exploit flow-induced vibrations as the main source of energy. Starting with 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 galloping of a bluff body attached to a
piezoelectric cantilever is a prospective method to power wireless sensing systems. In order …