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The paper considers mixed convection flow of an optically dense viscous incompressible fluid along a vertical cylinder, including the effects of radiation when the surface temperature of the cylinder is assumed to be constant (radiation effects on convective flow are important in the context of space technology and processes involving high temperatures). The authors use appropriate transformation in order to reduce the boundary-layer equations to local non-similar equations. These equations are then solved numerically by using the local non-similarity method, by considering the second-order truncation, and by employing the Keller-box scheme. Results are obtained for the transverse curvature parameter \(\xi\) in the range \([0;10]\), for conduction-radiation parameter \(R_d= 0.0\), 1.0 and 5.0, for the Prandtl number \(\text{Pr}= 0.7\), for the surface temperature parameter \(\theta_w= 1.1\), and for the buoyancy parameter \(\Omega= 1.0\). It has been shown that the local skin friction coefficient as well as the local Nusselt number obtained by these methods are in excellent agreement. It has been also found that an increase in \(R_d\) and \(\Omega\) leads to an increase in the skin friction coefficient and in the local Nusselt number. However, only the case of assisting flow has been considered.