Free engineering calculators built by a licensed PE

Open-channel hydraulics, pipe flow, weir & orifice equations, and stormwater calculators — each one with the formula spelled out so you can verify the math. No login, no paywall, no tracking beyond what AdSense requires. Built for working engineers, not students cramming for the FE.

Open-Channel Hydraulics
Manning's Equation
Open-channel flow: Q from n, A, Rh, S
Time of Concentration
Kirpich + NRCS lag for stormwater design
Rational Method
Peak runoff: Q = C · I · A
NRCS Curve Number
SCS / TR-55 runoff depth and volume
Culvert Hydraulics
FHWA HDS-5 inlet + outlet control headwater
Pipe Flow & Pressure
Darcy-Weisbach
Pipe head loss from friction factor
Hazen-Williams
Water-distribution head loss, simpler than D-W
Reynolds Number
Laminar / transitional / turbulent flow regime
Weirs & Orifices
Sharp-Crested Weir
Q = C · L · H3/2
Broad-Crested Weir
Spillway and overflow weir flow
V-Notch Weir
Triangular weir for low flow measurement
Orifice Flow
Q = Cd · A · √(2gh)

Free reference cards

Single-page printable cheat sheets for the values engineers look up over and over. Save the PDF, pin it above your desk.

Manning's n
Roughness coefficient table — concrete to natural streams to floodplains

What's coming next

More tools are added weekly. Planned next: culvert hydraulics (inlet/outlet control), stormwater pond routing, NRCS curve number runoff, and structural beam deflection. If there's a calculator you'd like that isn't here, the repo's issues page is the place to ask.

Why another engineering calculator site?

Most of the existing options either bury the math behind ads, leave you guessing what coefficients they're using, or were built for a freshman thermodynamics class twenty years ago and never updated. Every PE-Calc tool shows the formula being applied, names every variable, cites a reference, and lets you hand-check the result. The calculators run entirely in your browser — nothing leaves your machine.

Monthly engineering case studies

One real stormwater or hydraulics design problem per month, with the math worked out and the gotchas called out. No tutorials, no fluff.

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