Solution

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Orient the body boundary counterclockwise and write its tangent displacement as . The outward normal from the body has displacement-weighted components . Pressure therefore exerts the force components and , or
For steady irrotational incompressible flow at constant density, Bernoulli gives , with any constant far-field kinetic term absorbed into . Its constant contribution integrates to zero. The boundary is a streamline, so is constant there and is real. Thus , giving . This identity element remains valid at a stagnation point as both sides vanish. Substitution yields Blasius force theorem:

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