For the positive-drift equation, the outer expansion obeys . Select the boundary condition at the right endpoint, obtaining . The first correction satisfies
Integrating gives
The boundary condition mismatch is at . Set and use the inner expansion . The inner equation is . At leading order, matching to and imposing give . At first order,
The outer expansion in the overlap is . Matching its constant and linear terms gives
The additive composite expansion adds inner and outer approximations and subtracts the common overlap:
It meets the left condition exactly and the right condition up to exponentially small terms, with an uniform asymptotic error. This is the first-order composite expansion for a positive drift specialized to the present coefficients.
Reversing the drift moves the decaying boundary layer to ; the outer solution is selected at . For the second equation, is in fact an exact solution, but predicts at the right boundary instead of . Put . The inner equation becomes
Matching to gives
Indeed, and , as required by the order- boundary value. Since , and give the endpoint derivative in a negative-drift boundary layer:
The order-one term cannot be obtained by differentiating the leading inner solution alone.