It is shown that the general momentum theory, in the form that it has been published previously, underestimates the axial force and the absorbed power, possibly by a large amount if the expansion of the wake is large. Consequently, the Betz limit, theoretically, can probably be exceeded by a correspondingly large amount.
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Xiros et al. (2006) studied this question.
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