The comments on the recently published paper by M. Gnaneswara Reddy are presented. It is shown that the similarity transformations made in the paper are not correct.
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Published in Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 88, No. 6, pp. 1498–1511, November–December, 2015.
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Patil, P.M. Comments on the Paper "Unsteady Radiative-Convective Boundary-Layer Flow of a Casson Fluid with Variable Thermal Conductivity" by M. Gnaneswara Reddy. J Eng Phys Thermophy 88, 1534–1536 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-015-1340-1
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