Vibro-Wind Energy Technology for Architectural Applications

{access view=!registered}Only logged in users can view the full text of the article.{/access}{access view=registered}‘Vibro-wind power’ is the harvesting of energy from the wind as it flows around commercial and residential buildings through the mechanism of vibrating structures. The basic science involves energy extraction from bodies induced to vibrate by the action of fluid flow and vortices around flexible structures. Our approach at Cornell University has been to consider the effects of wind on multiple interacting flexible structures, such as hundreds of small cantilevers mounted to a surface. Other vibro-wind concepts include large, fluttering wind-vane type structures, as well as flag or leaf and tree type flexible structures.