This paper reviews the efforts to construct (or prove the impossibility of)
singular solutions of the Euler equations for three dimensional
incompressible flow. A semi-analytic approach to this problem is formulated
based on numerical computation of complex traveling wave solutions, followed by
perturbation construction of a real solution, for axisymmetric flow with swirl.
The perturbation analysis depends on
small amplitude of the singularity in the traveling wave solution, for small swirl in
the underlying background flow.