Double diffusion from a horizontal line source in an infinite porous medium (Q1075214)

The present paper aims to analyze an important fundamental problem in porous media natural convection: the phenomenon of time-dependent heat, mass and fluid flow induced by a horizontal line source producing simultaneously heat and a chemical species. The study will determine the effect of the presence of the chemical species on the main features of the flow field which, after it originates in the vicinity of the line source, penetrates the unbounded porous surroundings. In addition to its fundamental nature, the present problem finds practical applications illustrated by the spreading of chemical pollutants generated by exothermic reactions in the earth's crust, the chemical industry, the disposal of nuclear wastes and the natural convection cooling of buried electrical cables.