G Z Gershuni and E M Zhukhovitskii (translated from the Russian by D Louvish) Jerusalem: Israel Programme for Scientific Translations (dist. J Wiley, Chichester) 1976 pp vi + 330 price £24 Hydrostatic equilibrium obtains in a nonhomogeneous fluid subject to the action of a uniform gravitational field, provided that the density gradient is everywhere vertical and bottom heavy. The study of the convective fluid motions that ensue when these conditions are not satisfied is of basic importance in fluid mechanisms, and has numerous applications in engineering, geophysics and astronomy.
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R. Hide (1977) studied this question.