On the existence of canards in a nonlinear fluid system manifesting oscillatory behaviour

In an earlier study dealing with a nonlinear fluid oscillator governed by two autonomous ODEs, the solutions were found to display some aberrant characteristics adjacent to the boundaries of the oscillatory regime in parameter space. It was argued that this behaviour indicated the presence of canards. In the present study it is formally proved that this indeed is the case, and some numerical examples illustrating the phenomenon as well as its effects are presented.