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The transformation of aeroelastic vibrations into low-power electricity has received growing attention in the last few years. The goal in electroaeroelastic energy harvesting is to convert airflow energy into electricity for applications ranging from aircraft sensor systems to wireless electronic components located in high wind areas. The use of an airfoil section is a convenient approach to create instabilities and persistent aeroelastic vibrations. This chapter investigates airfoil-based electroaeroelastic energy harvesters employing piezoelectric transduction and electromagnetic induction. An airfoil with two degrees of freedom (DOF) is investigated by adding piezoelectric and electromagnetic coupling to the plunge DOF in two separate cases. The governing dimensionless electroaeroelastic equations are derived in each case for a resistive load in the electrical domain. Both linear and nonlinear electroaeroelastic methods of energy harvesting are discussed. The linear problem focuses on the response at the flutter boundary while the nonlinear configurations with free play and cubic stiffness in the pitch DOF exploit nonlinear limit-cycle oscillations. The effects of several dimensionless system parameters on the electrical power output and flutter speed are investigated. Experimental validations are presented for linear and nonlinear electroaeroelastic energy harvesting systems employing piezoelectric transduction. It is demonstrated that the free play nonlinearity (a detrimental form of nonlinearity) can be exploited to reduce the cut-in speed for persistent oscillations while the hardening stiffness (a benign form of nonlinearity) can be combined with free play to keep the response amplitude at acceptable levels.
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The cut-in speed is the minimum wind speed at which energy can be extracted from the device.
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De Marqui, C., Erturk, A. (2013). Airfoil-Based Linear and Nonlinear Electroaeroelastic Energy Harvesting. In: Elvin, N., Erturk, A. (eds) Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5705-3_11
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