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On the method of matched asymptotic expansions

Part III: Two boundary-value problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. E. Fraenkel
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge

Abstract

The formal method of matched expansions is applied to two further examples. The first concerns the magnetic field induced by a steady current in a thin toroidal wire. The second, which involves a non-linear ordinary differential equation of the fourth order, has been chosen to resemble the problem of flow past a circular cylinder at small Reynolds numbers. The results of the formal procedure are proved in each case to be expansions of the exact solution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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