Abstract
This paper analyses the effect of incidence angle on the performance of a dual cantilever flutter (DCF) energy harvester. An experiment was conducted for incidence angles of 0°, 30°, 60° and 90° about the z-axis where the 0° angle correspond to the case where both cantilever beams are positioned perpendicular to the wind flow. The electromagnetic power output was then theoretically estimated from the experimental measurements. Results demonstrate that from 0° to 60°, the critical flutter speed of the device decrease with angle of incidence, which highlights a potentially larger bandwidth. However, the flutter amplitude also decreases with incident angle, recording a 54.7% decrease at 60° when compared with 0°. This corresponded to a 76.1% drop in predicted power output. At 90°, flutter was not recorded within the tested wind speeds. The experiment was then repeated by rotating the DCF 90° about the x-axis. The results obtained this time was very similar to the 0° angle along the z-axis in terms of amplitude and power. However, the critical flutter speed was reduced by 16.3%. Interestingly, the flutter frequency remains approximately constant after the critical flutter speed for all tested incidence angle. Finally, some important considerations to maximize the performance for the device were provided.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Elahi H, Munir K, Eugeni M, Atek S, Gaudenzi P (2020) Energy harvesting towards self-powered IoT devices. Energies 13:5528
Hidalgo-Leon R, Urquizo J, Silva CE, Silva-Leo J, Wu J, Singh P, Soriano G (2022) Powering nodes of wireless sensor networks with energy harvesters for intelligent buildings: a review. Energy Rep 8:3809–3826
Zhao L, Yang Y (2017) Toward small-scale wind energy harvesting: design, enhancement, performance comparison, and applicability. Shock Vib 3595972
Gong Y, Yang Z, Shan X, Sun Y, Xie T, Zi Y (2019) Capturing flow energy from ocean and wind. Energies 12(11):2184
Tang B, Fan X, Wang J, Tan W (2022) Energy harvesting from flow-induced vibrations enhanced by meta-surface structure under elastic interference. Int J Mech Scie 236:107749
Lee YJ, Qi Y, Zhou G, Lua KB (2019) Vortex-induced vibration wind energy harvesting by piezoelectric MEMS device in formation. Scie Rep 9:20404
Lu Z, Wen Q, He X, Wen Z (2019) A flutter-based electromagnetic wind energy harvester: theory and experiments. Appl Sci 9(22):4823
Zhao D, Hu X, Tan T, Yan Z, Zhang W (2020) Piezoelectric galloping energy harvesting enhanced by topological equivalent aerodynamic design. Energy Conv Manage 222:113260
Hobeck JD, Inman DJ (2016) Dual cantilever flutter: experimentally validated lumped parameter modeling and numerical characterization. J Fluid Struct 61:324–338
Foong FM, Thein CK, Ooi BL, Yurchenko D (2019) Increased power output of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester through anti-phase resonance. Mech Syst Signal Process 116:129–145
Foong, FM, Thein CK, Abdul Aziz AR (2018) Effect of electromagnetic damping on the optimum load resistance of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester. In: 2nd international conference on smart grid and smart cities. IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, pp 127–132
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Grant No: FRGS/1/2021/TK0/UTM/02/3.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Velusamy, V.R., Suhaimi, M.I.M.F., Foong, F.M. (2024). Effect of Incidence Angle on the Performance of a Dual Cantilever Flutter Energy Harvester. In: Ahmad, N.S., Mohamad-Saleh, J., Teh, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. RoViSP 2021. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1123. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9005-4_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9005-4_15
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-99-9004-7
Online ISBN: 978-981-99-9005-4
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)