Explicit opposing-flow Falkner-Skan branches

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For outer velocity , the Falkner-Skan equation reduces for the scaled velocity to . Multiplication by gives for profiles tending to at infinity. No slip gives , so . The two smooth solutions are the displayed translates with . One decreases monotonically to the outer velocity; the other rises to before descending, producing an internal reversed-flow region. The latter has inflection points, motivating concern about shear instability, but the steady profile equation alone does not determine temporal stability.

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