DRIPPING-FAUCET MODEL · YOUNG–LAPLACE, INTEGRATED LIVE

Watch it let go.

A drop grows from a nozzle until surface tension can no longer answer for its weight. Open the valve. Change the nozzle. Try to make the starting angle matter — it won't.

LET GO
VOLUME
0.0 µl
Vc · THIS SIMULATION
µl
RIM ANGLE β
0 deg
BOND NUMBER
0

θ sets how the drop starts. The rim is pinned, so β climbs on its own as the drop grows — where it lets go doesn't remember where it began.