The work presented above represents a first attempt at examining the predictions of the model derived by Shikhmurzaev in a situation other than that of creeping flow. We have confined our attention to a particularly simple case of inviscid, irrotational flow. We have only been able to obtain a complete asymptotic solution in one particular case, but there is a suggestion that the contact angle asymptotes to π/2 for all values of θ_S. This remains to be demonstrated by calculating numerical solutions, which we plan to do in the near future. If this suggestion is correct, and indeed even if it is not correct, the next vital step is to include the effect of viscosity.
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