Unconditional nonlinear exponential stability of the motionless conduction-diffusion solution

Nonlinear stability of the motionless state of a heterogeneous fluid with constant temperature-gradient and concentration-gradient is studied for both cases of stress-free and rigid boundary conditions. By introducing new energy functionals we have shown that for τ=P _C /P _T ≤1, the motionless state is always stable and for τ≤1, the sufficient and necessary conditions for stability coincide, whereP _C ,P _T ,C andR are the Schmidt number, Prandtl number, Rayleigh number for solute and heat respectively. Moreover, the criteria guarantees the exponential stability. The Project supported by SRF for ROCS, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the National Basic Research Project “Nonlinear Science”