Piezoelectric flutter energy harvesting: Absolute nodal coordinate formulation model and wind tunnel experiment

Taisei Mukogawa; Kento Shimura; Shuonan Dong; Koji Fujita; Hiroki Nagai; Masaki Kameyama; Yu Shi; Yu Jia; Constantinos Soutis; Hiroki Kurita; Fumio Narita; Yushin Hara; Kanjuro Makihara; Keisuke Otsuka

doi:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2024.104351

Piezoelectric flutter energy harvesting: Absolute nodal coordinate formulation model and wind tunnel experiment

Taisei Mukogawa^*
, Kento Shimura
, Shuonan Dong
, Koji Fujita
, Hiroki Nagai
, Masaki Kameyama
, Yu Shi
, Yu Jia
, Constantinos Soutis
, Hiroki Kurita
, Fumio Narita
, Yushin Hara
, Kanjuro Makihara
, Keisuke Otsuka^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Manchester

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Abstract

This study proposes a new flutter harvesting analysis framework based on an absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) model that includes a nonlinear finite element method, a three-dimensional unsteady vortex lattice method that considers nonlinearities, and a piezoelectric equation. Because conventional studies assumed no extensionality of the neutral axis, use of flutter harvester configurations was restricted. However, this framework using the ANCF model can be applied to different configurations (e.g., extensible harvesters with fixed-fixed boundaries or multibody harvesters). The feasibility of the proposed method was verified by conducting wind tunnel experiments. The frequencies, root mean square (RMS) displacements, and RMS voltages of the analysis and experiment were compared. The difference between experiment and analysis was 23% in terms of frequencies. One of the reasons for the difference was viscous drag. Although the results were not a perfect match, the introduction of a viscous drag model will be considered in future studies to enhance this framework.

Original language	English
Article number	104351
Number of pages	7
Journal	Mechanics Research Communications
Volume	143
Early online date	30 Nov 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2024.104351
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (grant numbers 21K14341 and 22K18853), the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation, the Nohmura Foundation for Membrane Structure Technology, the Mazak Foundation, and the JSPS Core-to-Core Program, A. Advanced Research Networks (JPJSCCA20200005). This study was supported by the Collaborative Research Project of the Institute of Fluid Science (IFS), Tohoku University (J23I013). The authors acknowledge the use of the IFS wind tunnel facility for our experiments.

Keywords

Absolute nodal coordinate formulation
Wind tunnel experiment
Flutter
Energy harvesting
Unsteady vortex lattice method

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Mukogawa, T., Shimura, K., Dong, S., Fujita, K., Nagai, H., Kameyama, M., Shi, Y., Jia, Y., Soutis, C., Kurita, H., Narita, F., Hara, Y., Makihara, K., & Otsuka, K. (2025). Piezoelectric flutter energy harvesting: Absolute nodal coordinate formulation model and wind tunnel experiment. Mechanics Research Communications, 143, Article 104351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2024.104351

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