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I'm trying to model a water droplet between two plane surfaces such that it forms a capillary bridge as soon as the surfaces get into close proximity of each other like in the first figure of this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_bridges

I tried to play with the fluid simulation but I can only get an "infinite" stream of water. I also tried metaballs but I was only able to "melt" two balls with each other.

How would you do this?

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  • $\begingroup$ Do you need it to be fluid simulation, or modeling and animating it can be a solution? $\endgroup$ – josh sanfelici Nov 19 '20 at 16:33
  • $\begingroup$ it doesn't need to be a fluid simulation, I just want it to look more or less realistic :) $\endgroup$ – juhecomp Nov 19 '20 at 16:40
  • $\begingroup$ Is it a still or an animation? $\endgroup$ – josh sanfelici Nov 19 '20 at 16:40
  • $\begingroup$ It would be cool if I could animate it. The idea is to have a sessile or a hanging drop on one of the surfaces and then when they approach each other the capillary bridge forms and when they move away from each other the bridge breaks again. $\endgroup$ – juhecomp Nov 20 '20 at 8:32
  • $\begingroup$ Like in this video : youtu.be/3fJl2jAsoMk?t=14 $\endgroup$ – juhecomp Nov 20 '20 at 8:41

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