Journal
SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/aaede3
Keywords
aeroelastic energy harvesting; magnetic coupled; nonlinear modeling; broadband; enhance harvesting efficiency
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11672240, 11072198, 11502208]
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Aeroelastic energy harvesting can be used to power wireless sensors embedded into bridges, ducts, high-altitude buildings, etc. One challenging issue is that the wind speed in some application environments is low, which leads to an inefficiency of aeroelastic energy harvesters. This paper presents a novel nonlinear magnetic-coupled flutter-based aeroelastic energy harvester (FAEH) to enhance energy harvesting at low wind speeds. The presented harvester mainly consists of a piezoelectric beam, a two-dimensional airfoil, two tip magnets and two external magnets. The function of magnets is to reduce the cut-in wind speed of the FAEH and enhance energy harvesting performance at low wind speeds. A theoretical model is deduced based on Hamilton's principle, theory of aeroelasticity, Kirchhoff's laws and experimental measurements, etc. A good agreement is found between numerical simulation and experimental results, which verifies the accuracy of the theoretical model. Stability analysis is provided to determine the characteristics of the presented harvester. More importantly, it is numerically and experimentally verified that the presented harvester has a much lower cut-in wind speed (about 1.0 m s(-1)) and has a better energy harvesting performance at a low wind speed range from 1.0 m s(-1) to 2.9 m s(-1), when compared with traditional FAEHs.
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