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{{short description|Type of gas compressor}}
{{details|Centrifugal compressor}}A '''mixed flow compressor''', or '''diagonal compressor''', combines axial and radial components to produce a diagonal airflow compressor stage.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-08 |title=Mixed Flow Compressors {{!}} Turbomachinery blog |url=https://blog.softinway.com/feasibility-of-mixed-flow-compressors-in-aero-engines/ |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=blog.softinway.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Xuanyu |first1=Chen |last2=Xiangwei |first2=Meng |last3=Xingmin |first3=Gui |last4=Donghai |first4=Jin |date=2015-01-01 |title=The Aerodynamic Design and Investigation of Loading Distribution of a Mixed Flow Compressor |journal=Procedia Engineering |series=2014 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology, APISAT2014 September 24-26, 2014 Shanghai, China |language=en |volume=99 |pages=484–490 |doi=10.1016/j.proeng.2014.12.562 |issn=1877-7058|doi-access=free }}</ref> The exit mean radius is greater than at the inlet, like a centrifugal design, but the flow tends to exit in an axial rather than radial direction. This eliminates the need for a relatively large diameter exit diffuser associated with [[centrifugal compressor]]s. The [[impeller]] can be machined from solid using NC machines, in much the same way as that of a centrifugal design.

Diagonal compressors were widely experimented during and just after [[World War II]], but did not see much service use. A diagonal-flow compressor is featured since 2001 in the [[Pratt & Whitney Canada PW600]] series [[turbofan]] engines used in the [[Phenom 100]], [[Eclipse 500]], [[Cessna Citation Mustang]] and other [[very light jet]] aircraft.

==See also==
* [[Gas compressor]]

[[Category:Compressors]]

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