The optimal design of wind-induced vibration energy harvester with microscale and high efficiency

Abstract

In order to improve the performance of wind-induced vibration energy harvester (WIV-EH), the bluff body and cantilever beam play a significant role when the energy harvester works. In this paper, a WIV-EH model is designed to explore the factors affecting energy capture efficiency. In the Optimal design of bluff body, five kinds of bluff body is set to analyse the influence of the shape on the lift and lift coefficient by COMSOL Multiphysics 6.0. According to the simulation results, the D-shaped bluff body is optimized by changing the scale ratio and windward surface shape. In the Optimal design of cantilever beam, the result shows that under the same bluff body and wind speed, the shape of cantilever beam will affect the magnitude and distribution of strain. we also designed cantilever beams with different materials and splicing materials, and studied the response voltage output at different wind speeds. According to the above results, a wind tunnel test was designed for verification. The research results may provide new ideas for improving the energy harvesting efficiency of energy harvesters.