Solution

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The interface is material. Applying the kinematic boundary condition to gives, exactly,
The disturbance velocities and are small. Products of two disturbance quantities are second order, and a Taylor expansion moves their evaluation to at linear order. Hence
The extra upper-fluid term is advection of the displaced interface by the base uniform flow.
Use the Unsteady Bernoulli equation separately on each side, with constant mass density . There are no restoring terms specified at this internal interface, and its pressure is continuous. Choose the time-dependent potential gauges so that the undisturbed pressure is on both sides. Subtracting the base values from Bernoulli's principle gives, at linear order,
The quadratic disturbance-velocity terms have been discarded, while the cross term with the base velocity is first order and must remain. Equating the perturbation pressures yields the third condition:

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