FSI-HARVEST
Numerical modelling of smart energy harvesting devices driven by flow-induced vibrations
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Organization address
address: AVENUE DE LA FAIENCERIE 162 A contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Luxembourg [LU] |
| Totale costo | 100˙000 € |
| EC contributo | 100˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG |
| Funding Scheme | MC-CIG |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-09-01 - 2016-08-31 |
Partecipanti
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UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Organization address
address: AVENUE DE LA FAIENCERIE 162 A contact info |
LU (LUXEMBOURG-VILLE) | coordinator | 100˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The project investigates a new class of piezo-electric energy harvesting devices for renewable energy resources. The key idea is to invert the traditional intention of engineers to avoid flow-induced excitation of structures such, that fluid-structure interaction can successfully be controlled and utilized in order to provide independent power supply to small-scale electrical devices. Possible application are e.g. micro electro-mechanical systems, monitoring sensors at remote locations or even in-vivo medical devices with the advantage of increased independence on local energy storage and reduced maintenance effort.
This energy converter technology involves transient boundary-coupled fluid-structure interaction, volume-coupled piezo-electric-mechanics as well as a controlling electric circuit simultaneously. In order to understand the phenomenology and to increase robustness and performance of such devices, a mathematical and numerical model of the transient strongly-coupled non-linear multi-physics system will be developed and utilized for systematic computational analyses.
On basis of numerical investigations of the overall system optimal designs of the flow-induced vibrating piezo-electric energy harvester are to identified with respect to electric power supply under varying exterior conditions. Vortex-induced excitations of a cantilever piezo-electric plate are exemplarily considered for studies on robustness and efficiency.'