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Flip Fluid Laminar flow


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FLIP fluid sims will typically tend to give this sort of behaviour naturally... You might be able to encourage it by increasing the Volume Motion> Smoothing setting a small amount... not too much though, or you'll lose all the details.

 

Set up a sim with a flat shelf object, (maybe with raised sides to direct the flow towards one edge) and pour water onto it from an emitter... it should naturally form a laminar sheet off the side.

 

(Try an image search for "waterfall faucet" - that sort of thing, but just make it wider)

 

 

The most important aspect will probably be how you mesh the resulting sim... on the VDB from Particle Fluid node, try playing around with the Influence Scale parameter.  The higher you go, the more particles will sheet together rather than leaving holes... but the downside is, it has a tendency to cause popping in the mesh the higher you go, as larger and larger holes will blink on and off.

 

For that reason, you may need to balance that off against increasing the particle count of the sim instead.  Lower the particle separation and bump up the grid scale to 3 instead of 2, and you'll get a similar sim, but with far more particles per voxel.

 

 

Basically, trial and error I'm afraid... as I said, FLIP fluids will do what you want naturally, you just need to work out the most effective way to extract the best look out of it by considering the sim and the meshing.

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