On an internal boundary layer problem

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(01)00569-6MaRDI QIDQ1612374zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 22 August 2002

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0427(01)00569-6

internal boundary layer singular perturbation turning points

Linear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B05) Singular nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B16) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20)

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The authors consider the singular perturbation problem \[ \varepsilon y+a(x)y'+b(x)y=0, \quad y(x_-)=A,\;y(x_+)=B, \tag{1} \] where \(x_-\leq 0\leq x_+\) and \(\varepsilon>0\) is a small parameter. They investigate a turning point problem such that \(a(x)=0\) if and only if \(x=0\), and near \(x=0\), \(a(x)\sim \alpha x\), \(b(x)\sim \beta\), with \(\alpha >0\) and \(\beta/\alpha\neq 1,2,\ldots\). The existence of a unique solution for small values of \(\varepsilon>0\) together with its asymptotic behavior is established. The idea of the approach is to use a change of variables so as to consider equation (1) as a perturbation of \[ \varepsilon u+\alpha tu'+\beta u=0, \] the general solution to which can be written using parabolic cylinder functions. Problem (1) is then written as an integral equation and, for small values of \(\varepsilon\), its solution can be obtained using successive approximations.

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