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Imagine a simple case where flow passes through a straight pipe to enter centrifugal compressor.
The simple flow is straight, uniform and has no swirl.
As illustrated below α1 = 0 deg.
As the flow continues to pass into and through the centrifugal impeller, the impeller forces the flow to spin faster and faster.
According to a form of Euler's fluid dynamics equation, known as " pump and turbine equation ," the energy input to the fluid is proportional to the flow's local spinning velocity multiplied by the local impeller tangential velocity.
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