A Method of Harvesting Energy from Wind Using a Flapping Wing.

In the last decades, the wind energy became more attractive to Romania. Hence many resources are being allocated to develop energetic systems based on wind energy. In this work, using CFD (ANSYS Fluent), we investigate the possibility of harvesting wind energy with a controlled pitch-plunge wing system. For large amplitude of the periodic motions we develop a computational methodology, which uses the moving grid option offered by the ANSYS Fluent code, to evaluate the amount of energy extracted from the wind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]