Power and efficiency analysis of a flapping wing wind energy harvester

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8341, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bryant, Matthew ^a   Shafer, Michael W ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Dynamic stall; Energy harvesting; Flapping; Flutter; Quasi steady; Unsteady; Wind power

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; AEROELASTIC FLUTTER; AEROELASTIC STRUCTURES; AMBIENT FLOW; CFD SIMULATIONS; DYNAMIC STALLS; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; ENERGY HARVESTER; FLAPPING; FLAPPING WING; FLOWING FLUID; INSECT FLIGHT; LIMIT CYCLE OSCILLATION (LCO); LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MODELING APPROACH; MODIFIED MODEL; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; POWER EXTRACTION; QUASI-STEADY; SELF-POWERED; UNSTEADY; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AERODYNAMIC STALLING; AERODYNAMICS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); INTEGRATED CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND POWER;

AEROELASTICITY;

EID: 84861525585     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.915344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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