Energy harvesting eel

By J. J. Allen, Alexander J Smits. 2001

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Control and Systems Engineering, Environmental Engineering

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Energy Harvesting from Highly Unsteady Fluid Flows using Piezoelectric Materials (2010, background): “Allen and Smits (2001) studied the behavior of long and very flexible piezoelectric strips (so-called ‘eels’) in the wake of a flat plate normal to a flow.”
An improved analysis of the SSHI interface in piezoelectric energy harvesting (2007, background): “Other harvesting schemes include the use of long strips of piezoelectric polymers in ocean or river-water flows [2, 61], the use of piezoelectric ‘cymbal’ transducers [27, 28], and the use of piezoelectric windmills for generating electrical power from wind energy [45, 46].”
Harvesting raindrop energy: experimental study (2008, methodology): “For example, in one of these systems, a piezoelectric material is installed on windmills to recover wind energy [2]; the Eel concept uses the deformation of a PVDF membrane subjected to a tangential flow [3], and yet another system involves mounting a PZT disc to a Helmholtz resonator to harvest aco”
Flapping dynamics of an inverted flag in a uniform flow (2015, background): “Allen and Smits (2001) and Taylor et al. (2001) devised energy harvesting systems using the flapping of a flexible structure with a piezoelectric material attached to the structure's surface.”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from flow-induced vibration (2010, unknown): “The eel structures of Allen and Smits [1], Taylor et al.”
Underwater thrust and power generation using flexible piezoelectric composites: an experimental investigation toward self-powered swimmer-sensor platforms (2011, methodology): “One particular example by Allen and Smits [56] employs a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane located behind a bluff body for”
Piezoelectric coupling in energy-harvesting fluttering flexible plates: linear stability analysis and conversion efficiency (2011, background): “In the first one, an unsteady flow, created by the oscillatory wake of an upstream obstacle applies an unsteady forcing on the plate to make it flap [6, 7].”
Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and galloping (2020, background): “In particular, Allen and Smith [35] designed an “eel”-shaped 54 piezoelectric membrane structure in the Von Karman vortex street to harvest energy generated 55 from vortex shedding behaviors.”
Three-dimensional simulation of a flapping flag in a uniform flow (2010, background): “Moreover, flapping dynamics is also of importance in areas such as paper engineering (Watanabe et al. 2002a,b), socio-medical conditions like human snoring (Huang 1995; Balint & Lucey 2005), ocean/river power generation (Allen & Smits 2001; Taylor et al. 2001) and so on.”
Energy harvesting efficiency of piezoelectric flags in axial flows (2012, background): “This so-called flapping flag instability leads to self-sustained large-amplitude flapping of the plate in the form of traveling bending waves [3, 10, 15, 22], that can be used to produce electricity using, for example, piezoelectric patches attached to the plate’s surface [1, 4, 13, 17].”
Passive propulsion in vortex wakes (2006, background): “Allen & Smits (2001) have shown that a piezoelectric membrane subject to the action of oncoming vortices from a bluff body can extract energy from the flow.”
Undulatory and oscillatory swimming (2019, methodology): “Quinn et al. used panels with A = 0.77, so their choice of ρsc is somewhat arbitrary but since the aspect ratio was fixed it does not affect any of their conclusions (see also Allen & Smits 2001; Thiria & Godoy-Diana 2010; Dewey et al. 2013; Ramananarivo, Godoy-Diana & Thiria 2013).”