Open AccessVortex-induced vibrational tristable energy harvester: Design and experiments
Author(s) -
Shengxi Zhou,
J Li,
J Wang,
G Li,
Q Wang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/531/1/012011
Subject(s) - energy harvesting , aeroelasticity , energy (signal processing) , vibrational energy , vibration , vortex , broadband , physics , acoustics , power (physics) , mechanics , aerodynamics , atomic physics , excited state , optics , quantum mechanics
Wind energy harvesters have been widely studied for their great application potential to power small wireless sensors. Meanwhile, the unique dynamic characteristics of vibrational tristable energy harvesters have been theoretically and experimentally verified. More importantly, such vibrational tristable energy harvesters have excellent broadband energy harvesting performance under low-frequency and low-level excitations. This paper aims to develop a new kind of aeroelastic energy harvesters for enhancing wind energy harvesting performance. In detail, a vortex-induced vibrational tristable energy harvester is designed by using the magnetic force to realize the tristable configuration. A mathematical model of the presented harvester is provided. Experimental results verify that the presented vortex-induced vibrational tristable energy harvester performs better than the traditional linear vortex-induced vibration energy harvester.