The effect of double dispersion on free convection heat and mass transfer from a vertical surface embedded in a non-Darcy electrically conducting fluid saturated porous medium with Soret and Dufour effects is studied using similarity solution technique. The heat and mass transfer coefficients are effected greatly due to these secondary effects and also due to the complex interaction among the dispersion parameters $Raγ,Raξ$, and Lewis number Le and buoyancy ratio $N$. In both aiding and opposing buoyancies, $Df$ and $Sr$ have significant influence on the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers in the presence and absence of thermal and solutal dispersion in the medium. It is also observed that the magnetic field parameter lowered heat and mass transfer coefficients. The results are presented through comparison tables and plots.

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