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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 925276, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2009/925276 Research Article Computationally Efficient Technique for Solving ODE Systems Exhibiting Initial and Boundary Layers N. Parumasur, P. Singh, and V. Singh School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa Correspondence should be addressed to N. Parumasur, parumasurn1@ukzn.ac.za Received 29 May 2009; Accepted 13 October 2009 Recommended by Irena Trendafilova A computational technique based on asymptotic analysis for solving singularly perturbed ODE systems involving a small parameter is considered. The focus is on second-order systems, but the procedure is also applicable for first-order systems. Both initial value and boundary value problems will be solved. The application of the method is considered over the entire time domain for a wide range of and the resulting approximation is compared with the direct numerical solution. The convection-diffusion problem from fluid mechanics and the telegraph equation from electrical engineering are considered. Copyright q 2009 N. Parumasur et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Singularly perturbed problems involving a small parameter are ubiquitous in the field of engineering and present a formidable challenge in their numerical solution. For example, in the field of fluid mechanics such problems appear in the form of convection-diffusion partial differential equations and are used, in the computation of temperature in compressible flows, to