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Design, modeling and experiments of broadband tristable galloping piezoelectric energy harvester

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Galloping based piezoelectric energy harvester is a kind of micro-environmental energy harvesting device based on flow-induced vibrations. A novel tristable galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester is constructed by introducing a nonlinear magnetic force on the traditional galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester. Based on Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and Kirchhoff’s law, the corresponding aero-electromechanical model is proposed and validated by a series of wind tunnel experiments. The parametric study is performed to analyse the response of the tristable galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester. Numerical results show that comparing with the galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester, the mechanism of the tristable galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester is more complex. With the increase of a wind speed, the vibration of the bluff body passes through three branches: intra-well oscillations, chaotic oscillations, and inter-well oscillations. The threshold wind speed of the presented harvester for efficiently harvesting energy is 1.0 m/s, which is decreased by 33% compared with the galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester. The maximum output power of the presented harvester is 0.73 mW at 7.0 m/s wind speed, which is increased by 35.3%. Compared with the traditional galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester, the presented tristable galloping-based piezoelectric energy harvester has a better energy harvesting performance from flow-induced vibrations.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 51606171, 51977196, and 11802237) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant 2019M652565).

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  1. Engineering Research Center of Energy Saving Technology and Equipment of Thermal Energy System, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

    Junlei Wang & Linfeng Geng

  2. School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Shengxi Zhou

  3. William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Zhien Zhang

  4. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Optomechatronics Engineering, College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Zhihui Lai

  5. Institute of Mechanical, Process & Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Daniil Yurchenko

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Wang, J., Geng, L., Zhou, S. et al. Design, modeling and experiments of broadband tristable galloping piezoelectric energy harvester. Acta Mech. Sin. 36, 592–605 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-020-00928-5

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