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

Diffusiophoresis-enhanced reaction-diffusion equations (bottom right) can explain how the Ornate Boxfish gets its spots (bottom left).
See How animals get their stripes and spots and Ben Alessio’s sandbox.

News

Dimensional Analysis in the latest release: see the new Tutorial
Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2023, 5–7th July, Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris. Program and presentations
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting TBA
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)

[salvador2024]	F.J. Salvador, P. Martí-Aldaraví, A. Lozano, H. Taghavifar, and A. Nemati. Droplet characterization of a pressure-swirl atomizer by means of high-fidelity modelling based on dns simulations. Fuel, 358:130169, 2024. [ DOI \| http ]
[martin2023]	Hugo A. Martin, Marc Peruzzetto, Sylvain Viroulet, Anne Mangeney, Pierre-Yves Lagrée, Stéphane Popinet, Bertrand Maury, Aline Lefebvre-Lepot, Yvon Maday, and François Bouchut. Numerical simulations of granular dam break: comparison between discrete element, Navier-Stokes and thin-layer models. Physical Review E , 108(5):054902–054927, November 2023. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[liu2023]	Shuo Liu, Hui Wang, Annie-Claude Bayeul-Lainé, Cheng Li, Joseph Katz, and Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. Wave statistics and energy dissipation of shallow-water breaking waves in a tank with a level bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 975:A25, 2023. [ DOI ]
[kayal2023]	Lohit Kayal and Ratul Dasgupta. Jet from a very large, axisymmetric, surface-gravity wave. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 975:A22, 2023. [ DOI ]