Energy harvesting fueling the revival of self-powered unmanned aerial vehicles

X Wei, Z Yi, W Li, L Zhao, W Zhang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in various situations, such as life
rescue, environmental exploration, and wireless communication, to avoid the safety risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Flapping wing micro-aerial-vehicle: Kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms of ornithopter and insect flight

MFB Abas, ASBM Rafie, HB Yusoff… - Chinese Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The application of biomimetics in the development of unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAV) has
advanced to an exceptionally small scale of nano-aerial-vehicles (NAV), which has …

Three-dimensional characteristics of the jet flows induced by a pitching plate in a quiescent fluid

ND Ebrahimi, JD Eldredge, YS Ju - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Jet flows induced by pitching cantilever plates provide a power-efficient solution for fluid
acceleration and cooling enhancement. In such applications, the time-averaged (mean) …

Influence of thickness on the flow field generated by an oscillating cantilever beam

C Conway, N Jeffers, A Agarwal, J Punch - Experiments in Fluids, 2020 - Springer
The aerodynamic performance of oscillating piezoelectric fans has been the focus of many
research studies due to their potential as active cooling mechanisms for thermal …

Unsteady flow characteristics of an oscillating piezoelectric fan blade at high reynolds numbers

Y Chen, J Li, Z Wang, Y Yan, J Cui - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric fans have started to play an essential role in small-scale heat removal
applications in recent years due to their high reliability and efficiency. In this study, an …

Piezoelectric beam for intrabody propulsion controlled by embedded sensing

A Abadi, G Kosa - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The body is a very challenging environment for locomotion. The mechanical properties of
intrabody fluids and tissues vary by location and time. In order to move an embedded …

Experimental and numerical investigations on the thermal performance over corrugated surfaces with different wave shapes induced by piezoelectric fan

XJ Li, JZ Zhang, XM Tan, Y Shan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, the thermal performance of the corrugated surfaces cooled with a piezoelectric
fan was studied. A total of 25 corrugated surfaces with different wave shapes have been …

Vortex identification and proper orthogonal decomposition of rigid flapping wing

S Goli, SS Dammati, A Roy… - International Journal of …, 2020 - dl.begellhouse.com
The present study is focused on vortex identification and proper orthogonal decomposition
(POD) of the flow field generated by a rigid wing in main flapping motion. Experiments are …

Coherent structures in the flow field generated by rigid flapping wing in hovering flight mode

S Goli, SS Dammati, A Roy, S Roy - IOP Conference Series …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Galilean invariant vortex identification methods and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
are used to capture the coherent structures (CS) in the flow field generated by rigid wing in …

Effect of phase change material on temperature in a room fitted with a windcatcher

P Abdo, BP Huynh, A Braytee… - ASME …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Global warming and climate change have been considered as major challenges over the
past few decades. Sustainable and renewable energy sources are nowadays needed to …