A small insect not only run on water, but also jump because of the large surface tension.
Keywords: Meniscus wall breaking, Surface tension, Legged jump
Openfoam, VOF, Static contact angle of 167deg
Jump from water surface
Wire model (by Saiki and Shoji, 2012)
. Toshinari KIKUCHI and Koki KIKUCHI, A Study on Meniscus Wall Behavior for an On-water Jump Robot, JSDE, The 6th International Conference on Design Engineering and Science: ICDES2025, (Aug. 2025), Alexandria Egypt, to appear.