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On the construction of an asymptotic solution of a perturbed Bretherton equation

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We consider the application of the asymptotic method of nonlinear mechanics to the construction of the first and second approximations of a solution of the Bremerton equation.

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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 58–71, January, 1998.

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Mitropol’skii, Y.A. On the construction of an asymptotic solution of a perturbed Bretherton equation. Ukr Math J 50, 66–82 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02514689

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