Modeling the capacity of a novel flow-energy harvester

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2207-2217

  Zhu, Qiang ^a   Haase, Max ^b   Wu, Chin H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element; Flow energy harvester; Numerical modeling; Oscillating foil

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DYNAMICS; EXTRACTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HARVESTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

2D ANALYSIS; 3D MODELS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT; ELEMENT MODELS; ENERGY HARVESTERS; FLOW ENERGY HARVESTER; FOIL SYSTEMS; HARVESTING SYSTEMS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH ENERGIES; KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; LARGE RANGES; NONLINEAR BOUNDARIES; NUMERICAL MODELING; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; OSCILLATING FOIL; PLATE MODELS; POWER EXTRACTIONS; STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 58249127397     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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