Governing equations:

1. f" + 2Ff'f" = (θ' + Nø ')

2. θ" + 1/2fθ' + Raγ(f'θ" + f"θ') = 0

3. ø" + Le/2fø' + LeRaξ(f'ø" + f"ø') + LekPr/(Nt + θ)[ θ'ø' + øθ" - øθ'2/(Nt + θ)]=0

4. Parameters:

Raγ = γRad thermal dispersion parameter

Raξ = ξRad solutal dispersion parameter
Rad = ( KgβT θWd)/(vα)
K = permeability
βT = constant
θW = temperature difference
F = (c√KKgβTθW)/v2 inertial parameter
Kg = thermal conductivity of gas
Boundary conditions:

i. η=0: f = 0 , θ =1, Ø =1

ii. η ->∞: θ->0, ø->0, f'->0

1. f" + 2Ff'f" = (θ' + Nø')

This equation governs the values of velocity. It is converted into a suitable form
using forward and central difference formulae.

f'=(fi+1-fi)/Δx;

f''=(fi+1-2fi+fi-1)/(Δx)2;

In the above equation the second term in L.H.S, i.e. 2Ff'f" causes non-linearity.
The multiplication of f' with f" results in terms like fi+1 fi. fi being very close to fi+1
when the iterations are very high, it can be considered as fi2.R.H.S value is suitably

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assumed. Finally we get series of equations as follows. The values of f 0 and f n+1
are boundary values. Therefore they are taken to R.H.S which results in Tri-
diagonal scheme.

-2f 1+f2 = (θ' + Nø') –f 0

f1-2f2+f3 = (θ' + Nø')

f2-2f3+f4= (θ' + Nø')

. . . . . ..

. . . . . ..

f n-1-2fn= (θ' + Nø') -f n+1

It is put into a finite difference form:

Ax=b

A= coefficient matrix.

X= velocity matrix.

Matrix A is a Tri-diagonal matrix.

To obtain the values of velocity we employed Gaussian elimination

Total Plate length=50 cm, F=0.5

Velocity =
0

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0.0166

0.0329

0.0491

0.0651

0.0809

0.0965

0.1119

0.1272

0.1422

0.1570

0.1717

0.1861

0.2004

0.2145

0.2283

0.2420

0.2555

0.2688

0.2819

0.2948

0.3076

0.3201

0.3324

0.3446

0.3565

0.3683

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0.3799

0.3912

0.4024

0.4134

0.4242

0.4348

0.4452

0.4555

0.4655

0.4753

0.4850

0.4944

0.5037

0.5128

0.5216

0.5303

0.5388

0.5471

0.5552

0.5631

0.5708

0.5784

0.5857

0.5929

0.6000

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The above values are for 50 iterations. As we increase the number of iterations the
step length decreases. Therefore for large number of iterations the values of
velocity changes in very small increments and at the end it becomes almost
constant.

2.θ" + 1/2fθ' + Raγ(f'θ" + f"θ') = 0

Here Raγ=3

This equation governs the values of temperature. It is converted into a suitable

form using forward and central difference formulae

θ '=( θ i+1- θ i)/Δx;

θ ''=( θ i+1-2 θ i+ θ i-1)/(Δx)2;

Again boundary values are taken to R.H.S and hence we arrive at Tri-diagonal
scheme.

-2 θ 1+ θ 2= -θ 0

θ 1-2 θ 2+ θ 3= 0

θ 2-2 θ 3+ θ 4= 0

. . . . . ..

. . . . . ..

θ i-1-2 θ i= -θi+1

These equations are also expressed in finite difference form as below

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Here x=temperature matrix

Again Gaussian elimination is used to obtain the values of temperature

Temp =
1.0000

0.9603

0.9205

0.8806

0.8408

0.8011

0.7618

0.7229

0.6845

0.6468

0.6097

0.5736

0.5383

0.5040

0.4709

0.4388

0.4079

0.3783

0.3500

0.3229

0.2971

0.2727

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0.2496

0.2279

0.2074

0.1883

0.1704

0.1537

0.1382

0.1239

0.1107

0.0985

0.0874

0.0772

0.0679

0.0594

0.0518

0.0449

0.0387

0.0331

0.0281

0.0237

0.0197

0.0162

0.0131

0.0104

0.0080

0.0059

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 0.0041

0.0012

The above values are for 50 iterations. For large number of iterations, the values of
temperature decreases in small amount and at the end it tends towards zero.
The third governing equation which represents Thermophoresis is yet to be
programmed. Results and discussions are yet to be carried out.