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.