July 27, 2015
Jayant Sirohi's paper titled "Harvesting Wind Energy Using a Galloping Piezoelectric Beam" has been listed as one of the top ten most cited papers published in the past two years in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Journal of Vibration & Acoustics.
Galloping of structures such as transmission lines and bridges is a classical aeroelastic instability that has been considered as harmful and destructive. However, it may be possible to harness useful energy from this phenomenon. This paper focuses on harvesting wind energy that is being transferred to a galloping beam. A potential application for developing a device to harness this energy is to power wireless sensor networks on outdoor structures such as bridges and buildings.
