Solution

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Impermeability gives . At , the base velocity is continuous but its derivative jumps. The normal velocity and pressure must remain continuous. From incompressibility and the streamwise linearized momentum equation,
Therefore, with derivatives now taken in , the vorticity-jump matching for an inviscid shear flow is
At the upper jump and at the lower jump , where brackets mean the limit from larger minus that from smaller . Equivalently away from . Setting would discard the vorticity jumps and give the wrong eigenproblem.

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