Shock Math Calculator

Mach numbers with ease

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Shock Math 2.0: redesigned, with charts, a θ-β-M diagram, the standard atmosphere, a real Apple Watch app, iPad support and Siri Shortcuts. Shock Math is a fast, accurate compressible-aerodynamics calculator for students, engineers, and anyone working in high-speed gas dynamics. Solve isentropic, shock, and duct-flow relations in seconds — from any input variable, for any gas. COMPRESSIBLE FLOW, SOLVED • Isentropic flow — pressure, temperature, density, and area ratios, Mach angle, and Prandtl–Meyer angle • Normal shock relations — downstream Mach, static and stagnation pressure, temperature, and density ratios • Oblique shock relations — weak and strong solutions, wave angle, deflection angle, and normal Mach components • Conical shock relations — Taylor–Maccoll solution for cone angle, surface Mach number, and surface property ratios • Fanno flow — adiabatic flow with friction in a constant-area duct • Rayleigh flow — frictionless flow with heat addition • Standard atmosphere — U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 from sea level to 86 km: temperature, pressure, density, speed of sound and viscosity, from altitude, pressure or density • Ideal gas law — p = ρRT and pV = nRT, solve for any quantity in the units you work in • Scratch Pad — a quick built-in calculator for the numbers in between SEE THE PHYSICS Every result comes with a chart: property ratios across the Mach range with your answer marked, the full θ-β-M oblique shock diagram with your case on it, the cone-angle curve for conical shocks, and atmosphere profiles by altitude. SOLVE FROM ANY VARIABLE Don't just go forward from Mach number. Enter a pressure ratio, temperature ratio, area ratio, wave angle, or Prandtl–Meyer angle and Shock Math finds the Mach number for you — subsonic or supersonic branch, your choice. ANY GAS, ANY GAMMA Set the ratio of specific heats (γ) to model air, combustion products, monatomic gases, or anything in between. Every relation respects your γ. PROVEN-ACCURATE MATH Version 1.6 rebuilt and independently verified the calculation engine. Every relation is cross-checked against the classic NACA Report 1135 tables and against independent reference implementations across a wide range of Mach numbers and specific-heat ratios — hundreds of checks, zero discrepancies. Forward and inverse solutions round-trip exactly. BUILT FOR REAL WORK • Clean, consistent calculators that remember your inputs • Theory & Equations: assumptions and key equations for every calculator, one tap away • History and saved cases — reload any past calculation • Export results as text, CSV or PDF • iPad layout with a sidebar, plus Split View and Stage Manager • Apple Watch app: isentropic flow, normal shock, ideal gas and a scratch pad, set with the Digital Crown • Siri and Shortcuts actions for isentropic ratios, normal shocks and the standard atmosphere • Light and dark mode, VoiceOver, and every text size • Show or hide the calculators you use Whether you're checking homework in a gas dynamics course, sizing a supersonic nozzle, or sanity-checking a CFD result, Shock Math gives you trustworthy numbers fast. Feedback and feature requests are always welcome from the in-app form.

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Shock Math 2.0 — redesigned, with charts, the standard atmosphere, a real Apple Watch app and iPad support. A NEW LOOK • Every calculator now shares one clean layout: inputs, Calculate, results and a chart, all in one scrolling page that works at every text size. • Your inputs stay put when you switch between calculators. • The calculator picker lives in the navigation bar, with Theory & Equations one tap away. CHARTS • See your answer on the curve: isentropic, Fanno, Rayleigh and normal-shock ratios across the Mach range. • The full θ-β-M diagram for oblique shocks, with your Mach number and case highlighted, the maximum-deflection line and the sonic line. • Shock angle against cone angle for conical shocks, and temperature, pressure, density and speed-of-sound profiles for the atmosphere. NEW: STANDARD ATMOSPHERE • The U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 from −5 km to 86 km. Enter an altitude in metres or feet — or a pressure or density to find the matching altitude — and get temperature, pressure, density, speed of sound, viscosity and the θ, δ, σ ratios. IDEAL GAS, REBUILT • Solve p = ρRT or pV = nRT for any quantity, with a unit menu on every value: Pa, kPa, MPa, bar, atm, psi; K, °C, °F, °R; m³, L, cm³, ft³; mol, kmol. • Pick a gas and its gas constant R is used automatically. • Ideal gas results can now be saved to History and exported. THEORY & EQUATIONS • Every calculator now has a reference page with its assumptions and key equations — the θ-β-M relation, Taylor–Maccoll, Fanno and Rayleigh relations and more. APPLE WATCH • A real watch app: isentropic flow, normal shock and ideal gas, set with the Digital Crown, with results that update as you turn it — plus the scratch pad. IPAD • A full iPad layout with a sidebar of every calculator, and support for Split View and Stage Manager. SIRI & SHORTCUTS • "Isentropic ratios in Shock Math", "Normal shock in Shock Math" and "Standard atmosphere in Shock Math" — or use the actions in your own shortcuts. FIXES • Numbers typed with a decimal comma were read as zero. They now work. • The scratch pad no longer rounds to one decimal place mid-calculation (1 ÷ 3 × 3 now gives 1), handles divide-by-zero, and is easier to read in dark mode. • Very small results show in scientific notation instead of a row of zeros. • History now names every input for two-input calculators, e.g. "γ = 1.4 · M₁ = 2 · Angle (weak) = 10". • In the ideal gas law, "mPa" is gone (it was silently treated as pascals) and the volume button no longer says "Find Temperature".

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Seller
Gregory Manley
Size
5.1 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
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