Volume 23, Issue 2 No AccessMean Flow Approximations for Solid Rocket Motors with Tapered WallsOliver C. Sams IV, Joseph Majdalani and Tony SaadOliver C. Sams IV University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388Search for more papers by this author, Joseph Majdalani University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388Search for more papers by this author and Tony Saad University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/1.15831SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookXLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byAnalytical Methods for Grain Regression of Tapered Solid Rocket Motor GeometriesTyler Sheils and Roy J. Hartfield4 January 2024Solid Rocket Motor Internal Ballistics with a Surface-Vorticity Solver Griffin A. DiMaggio , Roy J. Hartfield , Joseph Majdalani and Vivek Ahuja 29 December 2021Solid rocket motor internal ballistics using an enhanced surface-vorticity panel technique29 October 2021 | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 33, No. 10Efficient Solution Approach for Internal BallisticsRoy J. Hartfield, Griffin A. DiMaggio and Joe Majdalani17 August 2020Viscous Mean Flow Approximations for Porous Tubes with Radially Regressing WallsTony Saad and Joseph Majdalani17 July 2017 | AIAA Journal, Vol. 55, No. 11Asymptotically based self-similarity solution of the Navier–Stokes equations for a porous tube with a non-circular cross-section3 August 2017 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 826The Taylor-Culick Profile for Spinning Rocket MotorsOrie M. Cecil and Joseph Majdalani7 July 2017Compressible integral representation of rotational and axisymmetric rocket flow9 November 2016 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 809Local Linear Stability Analysis of Non-Circular Injection-Driven Channel FlowsMaxime Bouyges, François Chedevergne and Grégoire Casalis22 July 2016Generalized Trkalian Flows: Swirling Motion in Rockets with Arbitrary Headwall InjectionOrie M. Cecil and Joseph Majdalani22 July 2016Rotational Approximation of the Taylor-Culick Profile for Rockets with Noncircular GrainsJoseph Majdalani and Eric M. Van Horn25 July 2014Characterization of Particle Trajectories in Solid Rocket MotorsJoseph Majdalani, Ajay Katta, Timothy A. Barber and Brian Maicke12 July 2013On the compressible Hart-McClure and Sellars mean flow motions6 September 2012 | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 24, No. 9Inversion of the Fundamental Thermodynamic Equations for Isentropic Nozzle Flow Analysis28 December 2011 | Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 134, No. 3On the Compressible Hart-McClure Mean Flow Motion in Simulated Rocket MotorsBrian Maicke, Tony Saad and Joseph Majdalani15 November 2012Compressibility Effects in Slender Rocket MotorsMichel Akiki and Joseph Majdalani14 June 2012 What's Popular Volume 23, Number 2March 2007 Altmetrics Metrics Downloaded 8 times 16 citation in Crossref Crossmark TopicsAerodynamicsAerospace SciencesComputational Fluid DynamicsEquations of Fluid DynamicsFlow RegimesFluid DynamicsFluid Flow PropertiesFluid MechanicsNumerical AnalysisVortex Dynamics KeywordsSolid Rocket MotorStagnation PressureBallisticsNumerical SimulationChamber PressureSolid PropellantsMomentum ThrustVelocity ProfilesAspect RatioMathematical ModelsDigital Published online23 May 2012