Capillarity plays an important role in numerous natural phenomena and various technological processes. The latter range from film flows in coating devices and dynamics of drops in ink-jet printingto biological and biomedical applications of fluid mechanics, bioengineering and microfluidics. The complexity of effects associated with capillarity and a continuously wideningsp ectrum of applications have kept capillary flows in the focus of considerable research effort for more than two centuries. This effort brought in many remarkable successes in the understandingo f the fundamentals and the quantitative modellingo f capillary phenomena in different situations.