Performance enhancement of a semi-active flapping foil energy harvester via airfoil with modified trailing edge and jet flap

Z Lv, X Sun - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper aims to numerically study effectiveness of the use of a suitable combination of an
airfoil with modified trailing edge and jet flap in enhancing the energy harvesting …

Vortex-induced vibration and heat dissipation of multiple cylinders under opposed thermal buoyancy

L Ding, H He, T Song - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The vortex-induced vibration of three cylinders in an equilateral triangular arrangement with
opposed thermal buoyancy are studied by numerical method. The cylinders are uniformly …

Optimization study of marine energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibration using a response-surface method

P Xu, S Jia, D Li, O el Moctar, C Jiang - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of bluff bodies is one type of flow-induced vibration
phenomenon, and the possibility of using it to harvest hydrokinetic energy from marine …

Research on energy harvesting characteristics of a flapping foil with trailing edge jet flap

Z Lv, G Zhang, X Sun - Applied Ocean Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Flapping foils offer a potential means for extracting hydrokinetic energy from ocean and river
flows by utilizing a combined pitching and heaving motion of the airfoil. In this paper, the …