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The stability of transient natural convection generated in a vertical slab of a fluid confined between two parallel plates held at different temperatures is investigated. The flow is found to be always unstable, but the critical Reynolds number decreases monotonically in time so that the final state is more unstable than all preceding states.
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Gotoh et al. (1971) studied this question.
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