Solution

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Immediately after , thin boundary layers enforce zero concentration at both ends while the interior remains close to . The profile is symmetric about . Higher sine modes then decay rapidly and the shape approaches
For successive late-time curves have the same sine shape and decreasing height; for they have that shape and increasing height. Those features determine the two requested sketches.

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