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A method of possible diagnostics of supersonic flows around a blunt body and its aerodynamic characteristics by means of a thin channel of reduced density emerging in front of the bow shock wave is discussed. The channel was placed parallel to the body axis or inclined to it. Under the conditions of initially uniform pressure the temperature in the channel (“the hot spike”) is higher than that of the environment. A thin hot spike, which as its limit is infinitely thin, results in the formation of a precursory disturbance in front of the bow shock wave. The length of the precursor is comparable with the characteristic length, that is, the cross section of the blunt body. The hot spike when localized parallel to the body axis and not in line with it yields turning and deviating moments, a lift force was generated even for a symmetric blunt body. Possible applications of this effect are, for example, a change of the trajectory of a small asteroid by means of using the hot spike.
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Nemchinov, I.V., Artem'ev, V.I., Bergelson, V.I. et al. Rearrangement of the bow shock shape using a “hot spike”. Shock Waves 4, 35–40 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01414630
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