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IJRRAS 17 (1) ● November 2013 /Volumes/Vol17Issue1/IJRRAS_17_1_10.pdf INVESTIGATING THE HYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF INNOVATIVE ARCHIMEDEAN HYDROPOWER TURBINES Alkistis Stergiopoulou 1 Efrosini Kalkani 2 1 PhD Candidate of the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering , 9 Heroon Polytechniou, 15780 Athens, Greece 2 Professor of the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering , 9 Heroon Polytechniou, 15780 Athens, Greece ABSTRACT The present paper presents the preliminary investigation of the hydrodynamic behavior of Archimedean hydropower turbines, with inclined and horizontal axis, for the exploitation of the low-head hydraulic energy and the kinetic energy of natural and artificial watercourses, including coastal and tidal currents. By using the similarity theory, some experimental cochlear rotors have been developed and some approaches have been made for a series of cochlear small hydropower plants covering small heads, including conditions with zero heads for the particular cases of the coastal and tidal currents of Cephalonia and Euripus Strait Keywords: Archimedean Turbines, Screws, Hydrodynamics, Small hydropower, Renewable energy . 1. INTRODUCTION It seems that hydraulic and Archimedean technology had a very long history in Greece. It began during antiquity, 23 centuries ago, during Hellenistic time, in the technological context of Macedonian Alexandria, in the famous Library and Museum, where the spirit of Aristotle’s was present, with various machines and mechanisms, gears, planetaria, celestial globes, the Antikythera Mechanism, with