>>12054121Haha, I was intentionally not bumping my thread so I could give up on this project. I did try the new parts I printed and smaller distances like described before but it didn't work. At this small scale surface tension effects are too strong and disrupt the flow. Diameters of >3 cm are probably required, but that's quite a lot of water flow that i can't achieve. The whole thing could also be a sham considering it's omitted from the 1900 version "Meccanismi".
As for pic related; With A=8mm and D~=1-1.5 mm there is a small chamfer/cone shape on one left side of the water stream, but I think it's just surface tensions. Any smaller D and it just overflowed.
I glanced at OpenFOAM, a free CFD program, but it only runs on linux and I just can't spend that many hours learning and testing.
>>12054168>>12054185Maybe, but aren't flows close to surfaces slow and clingy? The alleged oscillating nature and the distance between the plate at the bottom and the sprout at the top makes me believe it's some sort of wave interference.
