A review of flow-induced vibration energy harvesters

X Ma, S Zhou - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of wireless sensor networks, medical equipment, and
microelectromechanical systems, providing clean and self-sustained energy for these …

Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives

S Zhou, M Lallart, A Erturk - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting is a process by which ambient mechanical energy from
environment or host structures is converted into usable energy (usually, but not always …

High-performance piezoelectric wind energy harvester with Y-shaped attachments

J Wang, S Zhou, Z Zhang, D Yurchenko - Energy conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to improve wind energy harvesting performance, this paper proposes a novel high-
performance piezoelectric wind energy harvester with Y-shaped attachments on the bluff …

Characterizing nonlinear characteristics of asymmetric tristable energy harvesters

X Ma, H Li, S Zhou, Z Yang, G Litak - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ambient vibration conditions greatly influence the response of nonlinear energy harvesters.
Recently, simulations and experiments have verified that tristable energy harvesters have …

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of asymmetric tristable energy harvesters for enhanced energy harvesting

S Zhou, L Zuo - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper aims to reveal the nonlinear dynamic mechanism of asymmetric tristable energy
harvesters and enhance the energy harvesting performance for different excitations. The …

Dynamic modeling and analysis of a tristable vortex-induced vibration energy harvester

X Ma, Z Li, H Zhang, S Zhou - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind-induced vibration energy harvesters with unique dynamic characteristics and excellent
energy harvesting performance have received increasing attention. This study establishes a …

A water-proof magnetically coupled piezoelectric-electromagnetic hybrid wind energy harvester

LC Zhao, HX Zou, G Yan, FR Liu, T Tan, WM Zhang… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale wind energy harvesting can be a potential way to yield endless electrical energy
for small and micro mechanical systems, which has gained extensive interest from both the …

Design, modeling and experiments of broadband tristable galloping piezoelectric energy harvester

J Wang, L Geng, S Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Lai… - Acta Mechanica …, 2020 - Springer
Galloping based piezoelectric energy harvester is a kind of micro-environmental energy
harvesting device based on flow-induced vibrations. A novel tristable galloping-based …

An impact-based broadband aeroelastic energy harvester for concurrent wind and base vibration energy harvesting

L Zhao, Y Yang - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel broadband energy harvester to concurrently harvest energy
from base vibrations and wind flows by utilizing a mechanical stopper. A problem for a …

Galloping triboelectric nanogenerator for energy harvesting under low wind speed

L Zhang, B Meng, Y Xia, Z Deng, H Dai, P Hagedorn… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting technology of converting wind energy into available electricity is of great
significance. Yet efficiently extracting wind energy at low wind speed still needs to be …