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Piezoelectric Cantilever Bluff Body Energy Harvesting by Vortex-Induced Vibration in a Low-Speed Open Wind Tunnel Cover

Piezoelectric Cantilever Bluff Body Energy Harvesting by Vortex-Induced Vibration in a Low-Speed Open Wind Tunnel

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|Jul 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.65731/ama/2026-0034 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5319 | Journal ISSN: 1898-4088
Language: English
Page range: 331 - 342
Submitted on: Oct 13, 2025
Accepted on: Mar 2, 2026
Published on: Jul 16, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Arkadiusz Mystkowski, Piotr Wolszczak, Sreeja Sadasivan, Grzegorz Litak, published by Bialystok University of Technology
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