Unconditional nonlinear stability in penetrative convection
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Vol. 39 (1) , 57-63
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928708208805
Abstract
A nonlinear energy stability analysis is presented for the penetrative convection model of Veronis (1963). The critical Rayleigh number boundary determined here ensures nonlinear stability for arbitrary sized initial amplitudes, unlike the conditional results of Straughan (1985).Keywords
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