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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Smart Materials Research Volume 2012, Article ID 181645, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/181645 Research Article Supersonic Flutter Utilization for Effective Energy-Harvesting Based on Piezoelectric Switching Control Kanjuro Makihara1 and Shigeru Shimose2 1 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ward, Sendai 980-8579, Japan 2 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Kanjuro Makihara, makihara@ssl.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Received 4 January 2012; Revised 9 March 2012; Accepted 10 March 2012 Academic Editor: Osama J. Aldraihem Copyright © 2012 K. Makihara and S. Shimose. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The harvesting of electrical energy generated from the flutter phenomenon of a plate wing is studied using the quasi-steady aerodynamic theory and the finite element method. The example of supersonic flutter structure comes from sounding rockets’ wings. Electrical energy is harvested from supersonic flutter by using piezoelectric patches and switching devices. In order to evaluate the harvesting performance, we simulate flutter dynamics of the plate wing to which piezoelectric patches are attached. We demonstrate that our harvesting system can generate much more electrical energy from wing flutter than conventional harvesting systems can. This flutter utilization changes our perception to a useful one in various fruitful applications from a destructive phenomenon. 1.