Vorticity-sheet eigenfunction of inviscid Couette flow Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
Let be the Dirichlet Green function of on , with :
It is continuous and has derivative jump one, so . The Dirac delta multiplication identity gives , proving it is a generalized eigenfunction of the inviscid Couette continuous spectrum. Integrating reconstructs the evolving vertical velocity from its initial vorticity.