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Several theoretical and experimental studies of supersonic flow past a blunt body located in the wake behind another body have been made [1–7]. It has been shown that a reverse-circulation flow can occur in the shock layer at the front surface. The possibility of such a flow forming depends on the nonuniformity of the freestream flow and the Reynolds number. This paper presents new results of the theoretical study of the structure of the shock wave at the front surface of such a sphere, obtained on the basis of numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations. It is shown that for a fixed nonuniformity of the freestream flow, an increase in the Reynolds number and cooling of the surface of the body lead to the formation of a secondary vortex in the region where the contour of the body intersects the axis of symmetry. A study is made of the variations of the drag and heat transfer parameters over the front surface of a cooled and thermally insulated sphere. The possibility of numerical simulation of the flow on the basis of the Euler equations is discussed.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 143–148, May–June, 1985.
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Golovachev, Y.P., Leont'eva, N.V. Circulation flow at the front surface of a sphere in a supersonic wake. Fluid Dyn 20, 459–463 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050003
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050003