SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS IN A FREE CONVECTIVE DOUBLY STRATIFIED FLOW OVER A VERTICAL PLATE WITH CHEMICAL REACTION

An investigation was performed to study the influence of thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects in the transient, free convective flow of a viscous, incompressible, and doubly stratified fluid past an isothermal vertical plate in the presence of first-order chemical reaction. The governing boundary layer equations were solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme of the Crank-Nicolson type. The effects of the Soret number, Dufour number, thermal stratification parameter, mass stratification parameter, and chemical reaction parameter are analyzed and presented graphically. Also, the influence of the parameters on local as well the average skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat and mass transfer are analyzed and discussed. The results are compared with particular solutions available in the literature. The present results are found to be in good agreement with the existing solution.