Basilisk

    Basiliscus basiliscus is the latin name of the extraordinary Jesus Christ lizard, famous for its ability to run on the surface of water, a characteristic it shares with another well-known water-walker Gerris lacustris.

    Basilisk is also the name of a Free Software program for the solution of partial differential equations on adaptive Cartesian meshes. It is the successor of Gerris and is developed by the same authors.

    If you want to find out more about Basilisk see:

    Picture of the month

    Typical sequence of splashing events for a water drop impacting a deep water pool (Fig. 2 from Wang et al. 2025)

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    News

    [boniou2025]

    Victor Boniou, Stephane Jay, Guillaume Vinay, and Jean-Lou Pierson. Collision statistics of finite-size monodisperse droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1020:A18, October 2025. [ DOI ]
    [long2025]

    Tian Long, Jieyun Pan, Edoardo Cipriano, Matteo Bucci, and Stéphane Zaleski. Direct numerical simulation of nucleate boiling with a resolved microlayer and conjugate heat transfer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1020:A30, October 2025. [ DOI ]
    [burghelea2025]

    Teodor Burghelea and Miguel Moyers-González. Elasticity mediated yielding of an elasto-viscoplastic fluid in a plane channel flow. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, September 2025. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]
    [grea2025]

    Benoit-Joseph Gréa, Andrés Castillo-Castellanos, Antoine Briard, Alexis Banvillet, Nicolas Lion, Catherine Canac, Kevin Dagrau, and Pauline Duhalde. Frozen waves in the inertial regime. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1021:A12, 2025. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]