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The motion of a contact line, defined as the line where the interface between two fluids meets a solid surface, over the same surface introduces a difficulty (an unacceptable singularity in deformation rate and stress fields at the contact line) into the conventional assumptions of continuum (Newtonian fluid) mechanics. This arises because traditionally it is assumed that, even at a perfectly smooth plane solid surface, there is no velocity discontinuity between fluid and solid; this is the celebrated no-slip assumption.
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Pearson, J.R.A., Ferguson, J. (1998). Thoughts Old and New on Moving Contact Lines. In: Ramkissoon, H. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Lubricated Transport of Viscous Materials. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5248-8_14
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