Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 197, 33-36 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01433-0
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01433-0
Regular Article
Some singular errors near the contact line singularity, and ways to resolve both
Department of Chemical Engineering and Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
a e-mail: pismen@technion.ac.il
Received:
2
June
2011
Revised:
15
June
2011
Published online:
30
August
2011
The history of resolving the contact line singularity is briefly reviewed, with the emphasis on the traps posed by unstable solutions and the ways to resolve the problem by evoking microscopic physics to compute indefinite parameters of self-similar mesoscopic solutions.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2011
