Specific entropy is entropy per unit mass. For a perfect gas with constant specific heat capacity cv at constant volume and specific-heat ratio γ, differences obeywhere p is pressure and ρ is mass density. Thus a homentropic flow has constant p/ργ.
s2−s1=cvlog[p1p2(ρ2ρ1)γ],
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