Domain-size effects on boundary layers of a nonlocal sinh-Gordon equation (Q2208231)

Compared to a vast literature concerning standard elliptic sinh-Gordon type equations and sinh-Poisson type equations, for nonlocal sinh-Gordon equation the related concentration phenomena and the domain-size effect on the rigorous asymptotics of its solutions remain unclear. This article investigates a singularly perturbed nonlocal sinh-Gordon equation with Robin boundary condition in a ball. The author proves that the solution asymptotically forms a quite steep boundary layer in a thin annular region, and rapidly becomes a flat curve outside this region. Focusing more particularly on the structure of the thin annular layer in this region, the point-wise asymptotic expansion involving the domain-size is also evaluated more sharply. A new approach relying on integrating ideas based on a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map in an asymptotic framework is introduced, since the standard argument of matching asymptotic expansions is limited because the model has a nonlocal coefficient depending on the solution.