Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-differential-equations-2-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/3/b/iii/solution

Suppose the right-end boundary layer has width , and let . An order-one change of over this width gives . Near , the leading terms are order one. The dominant balance is therefore
Thus
The inner variable satisfies inside the domain and resolves the reaction boundary layer with square-root thickness.

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