A comprehensive review of nonlinear oscillators in hydrokinetic energy harnessing using flow-induced vibrations

Y Lv, L Sun, MM Bernitsas, H Sun - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of hydrokinetic energy converters based on alternating lift
technology (ALT) is provided. Emphasis is on nonlinear oscillators based on Flow Induced …

Damping effects on vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder and implications for power extraction

AK Soti, J Zhao, MC Thompson, J Sheridan… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effect of damping on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of a circular cylinder with a fixed
mass ratio (m∗= 3. 0) was studied through water-channel experiments. An eddy-current …

Flow-induced vibration of D-section cylinders: an afterbody is not essential for vortex-induced vibration

J Zhao, K Hourigan, MC Thompson - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
While it has been known that an afterbody (ie the structural part of a bluff body downstream
of the flow separation points) plays an important role affecting the wake characteristics and …

Two-and three-dimensional wake transitions of a NACA0012 airfoil

S Gupta, J Zhao, A Sharma, A Agrawal… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Flow transitions are an important fluid-dynamic phenomena for many reasons, including the
direct effect on the aerodynamic forces acting on the body. In the present study, two …

Experimental investigation of in-line flow-induced vibration of a rotating circular cylinder

J Zhao, DL Jacono, J Sheridan, K Hourigan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
This study experimentally investigates the in-line flow-induced vibration (FIV) of an
elastically mounted circular cylinder under forced axial rotation in a free stream. The present …

The effect of structural damping on flow-induced vibration of a thin elliptical cylinder

JCC Lo, K Hourigan, MC Thompson… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study experimentally investigates the influence of structural damping on the transverse
flow-induced vibration (FIV) of an elastically mounted thin elliptical cylinder. The cylinder …

Graphics processing unit-accelerated smoothed particle hydrodynamics—Finite difference method and the application for the flow around a cylinder with forced …

S Wang, J Hu, C Huang, Y Yu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The finite difference method (FDM) is a widely used grid-based method with high
computational accuracy and efficiency. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a …

[HTML][HTML] Flow-induced vibration of inherently nonlinear structures with applications in energy harvesting

B Seyed-Aghazadeh, H Samandari, S Dulac - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes a novel design for a flow-induced vibration-based energy harvester,
consisting of an elastic L-shaped beam, with an inherent nonlinearity in its structural stiffness …

Wake-induced vibration and heat transfer characteristics of three tandem semi-circular cylinders

J Wang, Y Zhang, G Hu, W Zhang - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies the wake-induced vibration (WIV) and heat convection of the downstream
tandem bluff bodies under the influence of an upstream bluff body at Re= 200 and Pr= 0.7 …

Numerical investigation on flow induced vibration performance of flow-around structures with different angles of attack

M Zheng, D Han, T Peng, J Wang, S Gao, W He, S Li… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The concept of energy harvesting based on flow-induced vibration (FIV) used in a new
application field of long-distance transport pipelines is proposed in this paper, the fluid …