Solution

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Orient the body boundary counterclockwise. The outward normal from the body satisfies , so pressure gives
For steady irrotational flow, Bernoulli's equation makes constant in the connected fluid region. Its constant contribution integrates to zero. Write . Impermeability says the velocity is tangent to the boundary, so there. Consequently
which proves Blasius' theorem with this contour convention.
The background stream function is the imaginary part of . Since its coefficients are real, the circle theorem gives
Its derivative is
In the coefficient of comes from the exponent pairs and , including both orders. It is . The residue theorem then gives
The vanishing transverse force also agrees with reflection symmetry about the real axis.

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