Journal
SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/ac075a
Keywords
piezoelectric energy harvesting; flow-induced vibration; square cylinder; angle of attack
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51977196]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020T130557]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20180150]
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The study evaluates the performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester with a square cylinder bluff body under different angles of attack. It suggests that the optimal angle of attack for energy harvesting is 10 degrees, with a 29.50% increase in output power compared to the traditional harvester at 0 degrees angle of attack.
This study evaluates the performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester with a square cylinder bluff body at various angles of attack. The energy harvesting characteristics of the system under different angles of attack are obtained through wind tunnel testing and computational fluid dynamics simulations. It is demonstrated that the square cylinder may exhibit galloping or vortex-induced vibrations depending on the angle of attack. The optimal angle of attack for energy harvesting is 10 degrees. Under this angle of attack, the maximum output power of the energy harvester is 29.50% higher than that of the traditional harvester with a square cylinder at 0 degrees angle of attack. The observations of this study recommend selecting the energy harvester with a square cylinder at 10 degrees attack angle to provide the optimal power output.
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