Thus, metaphorically speaking, the second derivative can be thought of the two-story structure erected on top of the original function.

An asymptotic expansion in powers of small dimensionless dispersion coefficient is sought to solve an initial value problem posed for an advection diffusion equation modeling orientation of pulp ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec., 1988), pp. 1227-1243 (17 pages) The aim of this paper is to contribute to the foundation of the asymptotic methods for initial-boundary value ...