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This communication reexamines a famous riddle in fluid mechanics: the moving contact line problem. I show that there is a solution for the wedge of a viscous fluid sliding on a solid surface without dropping any basic tenet of the fluid mechanics of viscous fluids. The solution satisfies in particular the balance of normal forces. It can be taken as a starting point for a numerical simulation of ‘large’ scale motion like a droplet sliding on an incline, without introducing any new scaling parameter.
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Pomeau, Y. (2006). MACROSCOPIC AND MESOPHYSICS TOGETHER: THE MOVING CONTACT LINE PROBLEM REVISITED. In: Golovin, A.A., Nepomnyashchy, A.A. (eds) Advances in Sensing with Security Applications. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 218. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4355-4_05
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