The Convection Instability of Bhnard-Rayleigh Fluid Under Varied External Force

A new model of Bknard-Rayleigh convection has been put forward from mantle convection and liquid crystal, where the external force deviates from constant to a lineal function of vertical dimension z. The dimensionless parameter ε is induced to describe the scale of this kind of deviations. Through linear stability analyses, we find that even-odd symmetry broken appears. By numerical calculation under rigid boundary conditions, we find that α_c is almost α constant but R_c decreases nonlinearly as ε increases, so the increase of ε benefits convection. When ε=0, all results reduce to the former works automatically.