Abstract
Most physical or engineering dynamic systems exhibit a mixture of fast and slow variations. Such systems are known as multiple scale systems or stiff systems. Some examples have already been considered. It is relatively rare that the dynamics of a physical system evolve on a single time scale. In general, an understanding of the behavior of these systems is facilitated by a separation of the rapid and slow aspects of the phenomenon. The method of multiple scales is designed to achieve such a systematic separation.
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Ramnath, R.V. (2012). Stiff Systems and Multiple Scales. In: Computation and Asymptotics. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25749-0_5
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