RESUMEN

Effect of buoyancy force in a laminar uniform forced convection flor past a semi-infinite vertical plate has been analyzed near the lesding edge, taking into account the viscous dissipation. The coupled non-linear locally similar equations, which govern the flow, are solved by the method of parametric differentiation. Effects of the buoyancy force and the heat due to viscous dissipation on the flow and the temperature fields as well as on the wall shear-stress and the heat transfer at the surface of the plate are shown graphically for the values of the Prandtl number σ ranging from 10^-1 to 1.0.