Energy harvesting efficiency of piezoelectric flags in axial flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.494zbMATH Open1284.74034arXiv1210.2171OpenAlexW3098048319MaRDI QIDQ5406450FDOQ5406450

Authors: Sébastien Michelin, Olivier Doaré 

Publication date: 1 April 2014

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Self-sustained oscillations resulting from fluid-solid instabilities, such as the flutter of a flexible flag in axial flow, can be used to harvest energy if one is able to convert the solid energy into electricity. Here, this is achieved using piezoelectric patches attached to the surface of the flag that convert the solid deformation into an electric current powering purely resistive output circuits. Nonlinear numerical simulations in the slender-body limit, based on an explicit description of the coupling between the fluid-solid and electric systems, are used to determine the harvesting efficiency of the system, namely the fraction of the flow kinetic energy flux effectively used to power the output circuit, and its evolution with the system's parameters. The role of the tuning between the characteristic frequencies of the fluid-solid and electric systems is emphasized, as well as the critical impact of the piezoelectric coupling intensity. High fluid loading, classically associated with destabilization by damping, leads to greater energy harvesting, but with a weaker robustness to flow velocity fluctuations due to the sensitivity of the flapping mode selection. This suggests that a control of this mode selection by a careful design of the output circuit could provide some opportunities of improvement for the efficiency and robustness of the energy harvesting process.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2171

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zbMATH Keywords

instabilityaerodynamicsflow-structure interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99)

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