David Vicente Ludlam

Dr. David Vicente Ludlam


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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23 December 2019 in Energies
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ABA Barrero-Gil
A Barrero-Gil
DLDavid Vicente Ludlam
David Vicente Ludlam
DGDavid Gutierrez
David Gutierrez
Francisco SastreFrancisco Sastre
Francisco Sastre
Kinematic rotary control is here proposed conceptually to enhance energy harvesting from Transverse Galloping. The effect of actively orientating the galloping body with respect to the incident flow, by imposing externally a rotation of the body proportional to the motion-induced angle of attack, is studied. To this end, a theoretical model is developed and analyzed, and numerical computations employing the Lattice Boltzmann Method are carried out. Good agreement is found between theoretical model predictions and numerical simulations results. It is found that it is possible to increase significantly the efficiency of energy harvesting with respect to the case without active rotation, which opens the path to consider this idea in practical realizations.