Choice between Ripple Solver or full Flip Sim

[nicolas.schlafer]

Hello,

I need to produce fluid animation to get close to this reference picture:

The left side should be a very soft wave hitting and bouncing on the bottle, the right side should be a bit more agitated water but still very smooth in general.

My dilemma is that i'm hesitating between "faking it" and using a mix of ripple solver and other "non-sim" ways to deform a mesh, or to go for full on flip sim.

From what i tried already, and what i read, having very calm/subtle flip sim is not easy to achieve at all, so i was thinking for now that the first "faking" solution would be more appropriate.

I would be very interested to know how you would approach this situation.

 

As an example, this is what i'm getting for now for the left side with a simple ripple solver and some caustics. The caustics helps a lot to make the render interesting but the movement of the ripple is a bit boring for now.

[Librarian]

here inside you have Ripple Solver...Hope it Helps
https://forums.odforce.net/topic/46281-ripple-effect-rebounds/?do=findComment&comment=216436

[nicolas.schlafer]

Thank you for your example file Librarian, it will for sure help me to refine the ripple solver part! 

[nicolas.schlafer]

One other option i forgot could be an Ocean Spectrum, here a first test using this method, looks probably close enough to avoid a flip sim.

test: