13. The inner approximation.

We rescale the problem by putting

 

in our original differential equation

If

we get

The equation then transforms to

  

Consider the coefficients

 

The problem in the original equation is that the coefficient  of the highest derivative y” is small compared to the others. To avoid this problem we thus choose the main coefficient

 

to be of the same order as one of the other coefficients and that the other two coefficients are comparably small. We demonstrate the procedure below (remember that  is small):

Case 1):
 

Case 2):

   
 

Case 3):

Ve see that we only have one possibility and that is Case 1, where the main coefficient is relatively larger than the remaining coefficients. We therefore choose

 

Our transformed equation then becomes

 

If we now put  we get the equation

with the solution

 

The boundary condition z(0)=y(0)=0 then yields that

 

Our inner approximation is thus

 

The remaining problem is thus to determine the constant a and match the inner and outer approximations.

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