Recent content by tmbouman

Perfect. Thank you for your time! I just want to point out that @boneh3ad has mentioned the shock can propagate for many miles at times. So I think the analysis challenge is understanding when it changes, because it must also correspond to an angle change at that time too. Putting it another...

@jbriggs444 here is from the start of post #26. When he says "normal to their length" i read that as perpendicular to the wave front.

@jbriggs444 You said the wave front travels at the speed of sound @boneh3ad in post 26# said it travels at the speed of the aircraft Which is correct? My current understanding is that while the shockwave has sufficient enough energy to keep the shock occurring it will travel at a speed less...

Understood @jbriggs444 . No problem. Thanks again for your effort. Is it your understanding ideally we would calculate shock angle with the Taylor-Maccoll equations and use that instead of mach angle? Is anyone willing and technically capable to help me understand the difference between mach...

Thank you for taking the time to work this up. From what you wrote, it seems that the propagation is only a function of mach angle. I am confused on this point. Why do you not use the cone angle in your math and compute Shock angle as boneh3ad describes in post #26 either via the θ-β-M equation...

Hi everyone, new user who stumbled on this awesome thread. I have been struggling and now believe that struggle is connected to the difference between mach angle & shock angle. Let me propose a problem: A plane is traveling Mach 2 one mile above the ground. The plane has a cone shaped nose with...