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High-order differential equations often arise from mathematical modeling of a variety of physical phenomena. For example, higher even-order differential equations may appear in astrophysics, structural mechanics and geophysics, and higher odd-order differential equations, such as the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, are routinely used in modeling nonlinear waves and nonlinear optics.
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Shen, J., Tang, T., Wang, LL. (2011). Higher-Order Differential Equations. In: Spectral Methods. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71041-7_6
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