Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2013/iii/paper-67/3/i/solution

Reversing the drift reverses the endpoint carrying the boundary layer. The outer equation is , and now its condition comes from :
Its value at is , so it cannot by itself satisfy the right boundary value. Put there. The leading inner equation is , with a correction proportional to that decays into the domain. Thus the outer region has size and the right endpoint layer has width . One would expand the coefficient near , solve the successive equations for the inner expansion, match as , and form a matched asymptotic expansion by subtracting the overlap. No turning region occurs because the drift does not vanish on this interval.

New to topics? Read the docs here!