Convective flows on a rotating horizontal cylinder with an hot incident jet are numerically investigated in the present study. The study is related to the outside vapor deposition (OVD) process for manufacturing optical fiber preforms. The results show that the temperature of the cylinder is affected by the incident jet temperature, the jet velocity and the jet width. When the jet temperature is close to the ambient temperature, the buoyancy effect can be ignored and the resulting temperature and velocity field of the gas is symmetrical. At low rotational speed of the cylinder, the effect of rotation can be neglected for the cases studied. When the Reynolds increases the pattern of the flow field changes and a recirculation zone may form. The highest temperature on the cylinder increases with the jet velocity. As the jet temperature increases, the flow pattern is different due to the buoyancy effect and the maximum velocity occurs at the location above the cylinder. For small Reynolds numbers, the flow approaches to the +y axis for larger buoyancy effect. As the Reynolds number increases, the buoyancy effect decreases and the flow approaches to the x axis. It is also found that the temperature on the cylinder increases as the jet width increases. However, there exists a critical limit for the cylinder temperature for further increase of the jet width.