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At these parameters the equation becomes $g^{\prime \prime }+g^2-4=0$, where $g=f^{\prime }$. Multiply by $g^{\prime }$ and integrate:Outer matching gives $g\to -2$ and $g^{\prime }\to 0$, so $C=16/3$. No slip gives $g(0)=0$. At that point the first integral fixes $g^{\prime }(0)=\pm 4\sqrt{2/3}$, so there are exactly two smooth initial-value solutions of the second-order equation satisfying the matching condition. Put ${\eta }_0=\mathrm{arctanh}\sqrt{2/3}$. Translation invariance of the supplied profile gives them explicitly:The first decreases monotonically from zero to $-2$. The second first rises to $4$ at ${\eta }_0$, crosses zero again at $2{\eta }_0$, and then tends to $-2$. Integrating either profile from zero recovers $f$ with $f(0)=0$.

One would not expect both branches to be equally stable. The rising branch contains flow opposite to its negative outer stream and interior inflection points, typical ingredients for shear instability. The monotone branch has $g^{\prime \prime }=4-g^2>0$ at finite positive $\eta$ and no interior inflection point, so the classical inviscid inflection-point mechanism is absent there. This motivates expecting the reversed-flow branch to be unstable and the monotone branch to be the stable candidate. A definitive viscous temporal-stability result requires perturbing the time-dependent equations; the steady first integral alone is not a stability proof.