While various artists and researchers have attempted to simulate Mach rings and similar high-speed combustion effects, many existing implementations rely heavily on artistic approximations rather than physically accurate simulations. I have previously worked on a personal project involving a rocket launch effect. Still, like many other attempts, the results were more of an artistic representation rather than a physically grounded simulation. The limitations of Houdini’s Pyro solver at handling supersonic and hypersonic flow phenomena necessitate a degree of creative problem-solving to improve accuracy while maintaining computational feasibility.