Accelerated simulation of tunable vibration energy harvesting systems using a linearised state-space technique

Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1267-1272

  Wang, Leran ^a   Kazmierski, Tom J ^a   Al Hashimi, Bashir M ^a   Weddell, Alex S ^a   Merrett, Geoff V ^a   Ayala Garcia, Ivo N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED SIMULATIONS; ADAMS-BASHFORTH METHODS; CPU TIME; DIGITAL PROCESS; ELECTRICAL PARTS; ENERGY HARVESTER; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPLICIT INTEGRATION; LOCAL STATE; MIXED-TECHNOLOGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SIMULATION TIME; SIMULATION TOOL; STATE EQUATIONS; STATE-SPACE TECHNIQUE; TIME-SCALES; TUNABLE ENERGY; TUNABLE VIBRATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; TOOLS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79957545698     PISSN: 15301591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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