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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).