Enhancing the Performance of Piezoelectric Wind Energy Harvester Using Curve-Shaped Attachments on the Bluff Body

• Main Authors: Poudel P., Sharma S., Ansari M.N.M., Vaish R., Kumar R., Ibrahim S.M., Thomas P., Bowen C.
• Other Authors: 57227251900
• Format: Article
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc 2024
• Subjects: curve-shaped attachments; galloping; galloping instability; piezoelectric energy harvesting
• Institution: Universiti Tenaga Nasional

This paper presents a piezoelectric wind energy harvester that operates by a galloping mechanism with different shaped attachments attached to a bluff body. A comparison is made between harvesters that consist of different shaped attachments on a bluff body