The purpose of the present paper is to propose a new hybrid method investigating the effect of the surface curvature of a solid body on hyperbolic heat conduction. The difficulty encountered in the numerical solutions of hyperbolic heat conduction problems is the numerical oscillation in vicinity of sharp discontinuities. In the present study, we have developed a new hybrid method combined the Laplace transform, the weighting function scheme [Shong-leih Lee, Weighting function scheme and its application on multidimensional conservation equations, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 32 (1989) 2065-2073], and the hyperbolic shape function for solving time dependent hyperbolic heat conduction equation with a conservation term. Four different examples have been analyzed by the present method. It is found from these examples that the present method is in good agreement in the analytical solutions [Tsai-tse Kao, Non-Fourier heat conduction in thin surface layers, J. Heat Transfer 99 (May) (1977) 343-345] and does not exhibit numerical oscillations at the wave front and the surface temperature is modified by the surface curvature during the short period when the non-Fourier effect is significant. The curvature will increase or decrease the temperature of the wave front, depending on whether the surface is concave or convex. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.