[HTML][HTML] Multi-interference local pressure modulation for improving performance of piezoelectric wind energy harvesters

FR Liu, WM Zhang, HX Zou, LC Zhao, T Tan, KJ Ma… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric wind energy harvesters based on flow-induced vibration are attracting
widespread attention because they can provide long-term sustainable power to wireless …

Enhancement of low-speed piezoelectric wind energy harvesting by bluff body shapes: Spindle-like and butterfly-like cross-sections

J Wang, C Zhang, S Gu, K Yang, H Li, Y Lai… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluid-structure interaction can be utilized to harvest the low-speed wind energy for
sustaining the low-power sensors for structural health monitoring. To enhance the low …

Modeling and verification of piezoelectric wind energy harvesters enhanced by interaction between vortex-induced vibration and galloping

X Yang, X He, J Li, S Jiang - Smart Materials and Structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous works verified experimentally that interactions between vortex-induced vibration
(VIV) and galloping may greatly improve the performance of piezoelectric wind energy …

A joint-nested structure piezoelectric energy harvester for high-performance wind-induced vibration energy harvesting

W Liao, Y Wen, J Kan, X Huang, S Wang, Z Li… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The indirect-excitation piezoelectric wind energy harvesters have shown great potential in
providing power to sensor network nodes as well as wireless electronic devices. To improve …

Piezoelectric wind energy harvesting subjected to the conjunction of vortex-induced vibration and galloping: comprehensive parametric study and optimization

K Yang, K Su, J Wang, J Wang, K Yin… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This study performs a comprehensive parametric study and optimization of a piezoelectric
wind energy harvester subjected to the conjunction of vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and …

An arc-shaped piezoelectric generator for multi-directional wind energy harvesting

J Zhao, J Yang, Z Lin, N Zhao, J Liu, Y Wen… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, a piezoelectric wind energy harvester was demonstrated, which aimed at
addressing the limitations of the existing approaches including single-directional operation …

Enhanced piezoelectric wind-induced vibration energy harvester via the interplay between cylindrical shell and diamond-shaped baffle

J Kan, W Liao, J Wang, S Wang, M Yan, Y Jiang… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from wind-induced vibrations is considered to be a promising solution for
the power requirements of wireless sensor nodes. This paper proposes an enhanced …

Enhancement of wind energy harvesting by interaction between vortex-induced vibration and galloping

X He, X Yang, S Jiang - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Most wind energy harvesters (WEHs) that have been reported in the literature collect wind
energy using only one type of wind-induced vibration, such as vortex-induced vibration …

Usefulness of inclined circular cylinders for designing ultra-wide bandwidth piezoelectric energy harvesters: Experiments and computational investigations

J Wang, C Zhang, D Yurchenko, A Abdelkefi, M Zhang… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This study proposes to change the inclination angle (α) of a circular cylinder with respect to
oncoming flow in order to broaden the effective wind speed bandwidth of the piezoelectric …

Geometrically nonlinear model of piezoelectric wind energy harvesters based on vortex-induced vibration and galloping

J Li, S Li, X He, X Yang, Y Ye, J Li - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction between vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and galloping could enhance the
performance of wind energy harvesters (WEHs). Though VIV-galloping interaction may …