Interested in flywheel mechanical batteries

[jmansurf]

Can someone point me to advanced engineering/ physics based literature / textbooks on the subject?

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF.

For what application? How much energy do you want to store? Can you use other energy storage means instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

 

[jmansurf]

Welcome to PF.

For what application? How much energy do you want to store? Can you use other energy storage means instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

Looking for more than wikipedia. More phd level papers and such ..

 

[berkeman]

Did you look through the References and Suggested Reading at the bottom of the Wikipedia article?

Also, what do you mean PhD level articles about flywheel energy storage? Most of the issues are engineering-related, like magnetic bearings and such. Not to mention the safety aspects of trying to store large amounts of kinetic energy...

 

[berkeman]

Also, check out the link I posted in post #9 of this recent thread on flywheel energy storage:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/flywheel-for-generator-drive.1011721/

 

[russ_watters]

Looking for more than wikipedia. More phd level papers and such ..

The subject is diverse enough that you need to be much more specific about the type of system/application you are interested in. And what you need the information for. Presumably you've already done some of your own searching...

 

[DaveE]

Looking for more than wikipedia. More phd level papers and such ..

What about google scholar?
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=flywheel+energy+storage&btnG=

As @russ_watters said, it's not really about finding papers, it's more about sorting through lots of choices.