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Published: 22 October 2026

León Martin 3 ,

Matea Sršen 4 ,

Freja Schou Guttesen 5 , 8 ,

Bing-Zhong Hu ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-4829 6 ,

Yuta Ito 3 ,

Stephan Korsgaard Pedersen 4 ,

Fadhil Suleiman Kamounah 4 ,

Fabian Pauly ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8017-2379 3 ,

Michael Pittelkow ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3371-9500 4 ,

Jing-Tao Lü ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-2816 6 , 7 ,

Per Hedegård ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-7462 5 , 8 &

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Oren Tal ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3625-1982 1

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Abstract

For more than two millennia, Archimedean screws have been used for water pumping and, more recently, as turbines in hydroelectric power stations[1].…