For a travelling wave of large positive speed in the cylindrical film equation, the leading core is proportional to over an axial interval of length . Edge coordinates reduce the transition equation to . Its real positive exponent gives a monotone trailing approach and its complex stable exponents give damped capillary waves ahead, with physical wavelength . Matching the two quadratic edge expansions selects the uniform film thickness; this is a matched asymptotic expansion, valid while the pulse itself remains thin relative to the cylinder.
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