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For documentation on the code, click here (pdf format).

For a copy of the code SHOCKS.F, contact me.

From the Introduction of the report:

Many times in the past, there has been a need to quickly estimate super- and hypersonic inviscid flow parameters for sphere, wedge, cone, and/or tangent sphere-cone shapes. This need has arisen for air as well as other gases. Such estimates are useful for determining outer boundary locations for computational meshes, shock impingement locations, stagnation heating rates, validation of more sophisticated computational or experimental results, and more. Undoubtedly, the NACA 1135 tables are the most common source for such estimates, but these tables are not always handy, do not give all the information sometimes needed (shock standoff, heating rates, gases other than air), and are somewhat time consuming when performing table and chart look-ups, then cross-referencing to the numerical tables for additional calculations. Other sources of tabulated data exist for cones and spheres but suffer the same shortcomings. Program SHOCKS was developed to provide these capabilities and more.