Aeroelastic energy harvesting: A review

A Abdelkefi - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting is the process by which light, thermal, solar, and kinetic energy can be
converted to a usable form of energy with the ultimate objective of developing self-powered …

Flapping and bending bodies interacting with fluid flows

MJ Shelley, J Zhang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The flapping or bending of a flexible planar structure in a surrounding fluid flow, which
includes the flapping of flags and the self-streamlining of flexible bodies, constitutes a …

Flexible seaweed-like triboelectric nanogenerator as a wave energy harvester powering marine internet of things

Y Wang, X Liu, Y Wang, H Wang, H Wang, SL Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The marine internet of things (MIoT), an increasingly important foundation for ocean
development and protection, consists of a variety of marine distributed sensors under water …

A novel humidity resisting and wind direction adapting flag-type triboelectric nanogenerator for wind energy harvesting and speed sensing

Y Wang, E Yang, T Chen, J Wang, Z Hu, J Mi, X Pan… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts Wind energy harvesting from ambient environment by TENG is highly desirable for
powering the wireless sensing system. However, humid environment and variable wind …

An underwater flag-like triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting ocean current energy under extremely low velocity condition

Y Wang, X Liu, T Chen, H Wang, C Zhu, H Yu, L Song… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Ocean current energy harvester is a promising infrastructure to achieve self-powered marine
wireless sensing system. This study proposes and investigates an underwater flag-like …

Harvesting ambient wind energy with an inverted piezoelectric flag

S Orrego, K Shoele, A Ruas, K Doran, B Caggiano… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper describes an experimental study of wind energy harvesting by self-sustained
oscillations (flutter) of a flexible piezoelectric membrane fixed in a novel orientation called …

Recent trends and progress in the immersed boundary method

WX Huang, FB Tian - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The immersed boundary method is a methodology for dealing with boundary conditions at
fluid–fluid and fluid–solid interfaces. The immersed boundary method has been attracting …

Ambient wind energy harvesting using cross-flow fluttering

S Li, J Yuan, H Lipson - Journal of applied physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
In this experimental study, we propose and test a bioinspired piezo-leaf architecture which
converts wind energy into electrical energy by wind-induced fluttering motion. While …

A wind vector detecting system based on triboelectric and photoelectric sensors for simultaneously monitoring wind speed and direction

Q Xu, Y Lu, S Zhao, N Hu, Y Jiang, H Li, Y Wang… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The wind vector sensor is a significant category of Internet of Things (IoTs) based sensors
due to its irreplaceable role in weather monitoring, traffic detection, and mine safety …

Enhance vortices vibration with Y-type bluff body to decrease arousing wind speed and extend range for flag triboelectric energy harvester

Y Han, F Wu, X Du, Z Li, H Chen, D Guo, J Wang, H Yu - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has approached network construction by billions of
intelligent wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). The major challenge is the desirable self-power …