This paper describes numerical and experimental studies on the pressure loss characteristics of the flow through stacked screens. The flow through each screen is simulated as a core outside a boundary layer developing along the surface of the wire consisting of the screen. Within the core, the flow is modeled as one‐dimensional for simplicity, and as two‐dimensional for a more realistic model. The jet emerging from each aperture of the screen is assumed to reattach with its neighboring counterparts before reaching the next screen. Both numerically predicted and measured results show that pressure loss coefficient increases with Mach number. The increase is sharp at choking. For a given Mach number, increasing Reynolds number has the effect of decreasing pressure loss coefficient. The empirical expression for the pressure loss coefficient derived from the flow through single gauzes is found to be applicable to the case of flow through stacked screens.