Solution

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For a boundary layer with exponentially varying outer velocity, the ansatz has . Matching it to requires and . The nonlinear terms in the stream-function equation scale as , whereas scales as . Matching exponents gives , hence
More explicitly,
Canceling the common factor gives
Together with , the other two conditions are
They represent wall no slip and outer-flow matching, respectively.

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