In this article, the effect of the pivot point location on the thrust performance of a two-
dimensional sinusoidal flapping elliptic airfoil in a forward flight condition is investigated …

The power exchange between fluid and structure plays a significant role in the force
production and flight efficiency of flapping wings in insects and artificial flyers. This work …

We develop a high-fidelity multi-physics model and, by using it, study the energy conversion
process of a piezohydroelastic flag. Instead of a regular flag with a clamped upstream …

The energy harvesting characteristics of actively pitching flapping foils under a two-degrees-
of-freedom (2DOF) system were investigated through numerical simulations. At a Reynolds …

There has been little research on the system stability of the flow past a blade when the
domain is finite in the transverse direction. In this study, we first explore the influence of the …

A leading-edge vortex initiation criterion of an oscillating airfoil is shown to provide a means
to predict the onset of leading-edge separation. This result is found to collapse the …

Stall flutter is a classical aeroelastic phenomenon that seriously affects the performance of
flexible wings at high angle of attack. In this article, steady blowing from the leading edge is …

Fluid–structure interactions of non-circular prisms are of significance from a scientific and
practical viewpoint. In this paper, we present a new experimental observation of flow …

Following our previous work [Int. J. Mech. Sci.(2020), vol. 177, 105587], we searched the
best power extraction performance of a novel flow-energy harvester, which utilizes a fully …

The energy harvesting performance of thick oscillating airfoils is predicted using an inviscid
discrete vortex model (DVM). National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) airfoils …