Howarth's transformation is applied to the compressible laminar boundary-layer equations for the flow at a point of attachment on a general curved surface. It is shown that the boundary-layer equations yield similarity solutions for the case when the viscosity varies linearly with the temperature, the Prandtl number is unity and the surface is maintained at constant temperature. The resulting eighth-order boundary-value problem is solved numerically for various surface temperature conditions and for various values of b/a, where a and b are constants representing the local velocity gradients in the principal directions of flow at the edge of the boundary layer.

Flow and heat transfer properties of the similar solutions at both nodal and saddle-points of attachment are given in graphical and tabular form.