Gorban' A.N., Gorlov A.M., Silantyev V.M.
Limits of the Turbine Efficiency for Free Fluid Flow
, Journal of Energy Resources Technology - December 2001 - Volume 123, Issue 4, pp. 311-317. 

 

Recently, five years after publication, this paper remains among top most downloaded articles in the Journal of Energy Resources Technology (see statistics for December 2006 HERE)

 

This paper is rather popular in Internet. Usually it is cited with a link to A. Gorban American homepage (http://mystic.math.neu.edu/gorban/Gorlov2001.pdf) and as a paper of Gorlov at al. The co-author of this paper, Prof. Gorlov, (Boston, US) was awarded by the Edison award for efficient free flow turbines (2001). A.M. Gorlov is inventor of the Gorlov Helical Turbine.

 

 

It is cited by (this list is very incomplete):

 

http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/wind-turbine

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Offshore-windfarm

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Propeller-wind-generator

http://www.gcktechnology.com/GCK/pg2.html

http://www.glosk.com/FR/Massy/-2077188/pages/Wind_power/48717_en.htm

http://www.indopedia.org/Wind_turbine.html

http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/05-06/marine_renewables/technology/hydrodynamics.htm

http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/05-06/marine_renewables/envimpact/sif.htm#1

http://www.mantaray.biz/gorlov.html

http://www.territoriopc.com/eng/wind_power.php

http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~feliz/e_paper14_DoubleWindTurbine.pdf

http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~feliz/e_paper13_WindConvergentTurbine.pdf

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/o/of/offshore_windfarm.html

http://sore4x4.com/home/db/Wind_Power

http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/wind_power

http://cprecheshire.org.uk/Linked%20Documents/CPREReportAstonGrange.pdf

http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wind_power

http://www.cyberiad.net/library/pdf/bk_tidal_paper25apr06.pdf

http://www.mantaray.biz/art/RE2005.pdf

http://cobscook.tamu.edu/review/TidalStream_RenEnergy.pdf

http://www.princeton.edu/~mauzeral/wws402d_s06/CompleteReport.pdf

http://www.electricitycommission.govt.nz/pdfs/opdev/transmis/pdfsgeneral/Akl-alt-stg2-AppendixC.pdf

http://en.mcfly.org/wind_turbine

http://www.samsi.info/reports/annual-report-public-03.pdf

http://www.seattleluxury.com/encyclopedia/entry/Wind_power

http://wordsonline.org/Wind_power

http://www.myinfo24.com/index.php?vc=2&visilex_key=Wind_power.html

http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/wind_power

http://www.md5security.com/San-to-Ava/wind_power.php

 

 

In the Renewable Energy Technology Roadmap prepared by the Bonneville Power Administration (US Department of Energy) in 2006, the paper was the only reference to academic journals.

http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/business/innovation/docs/2006/RM-06_Renewables-Final.pdf

Local copy (4.2M)

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