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:
- Tutorial
- Installation instructions
- Basilisk C
- Solvers and functions
- Examples
- Tests
- More documentation
Picture of the month
See also the POM Gallery.
News
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: TBA
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).
| [sykes2026] |
Thomas C. Sykes, Luke Alventosa, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, Radu Cimpeanu, Daniel M. Harris, and Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita. Fast droplet impact onto slowly moving deep pools. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1037:A11, June 2026. [ DOI ] |
| [cardin2026] |
Karl Cardin, Christophe Josserand, and Raúl Bayoán Cal. Cylindrical versus spherical self-similar capillary cavity collapse. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1034:A34, April 2026. [ DOI ] |
| [blanco2026] |
Clara Martin-Blanco, Nicolò Scapin, Jiarong Wu, Stéphane Popinet, J. Thomas Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, and Luc Deike. Kinematics of gravity–capillary waves above an evolving underwater current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1035:A5, 2026. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
| [kieffer2026] |
C. Kieffer-Roth, P. Le Clercq, J.A. van Hooft, and G. Eckel. A coupled volume-of-fluid and lagrangian point-particle approach for investigating the plain liquid jet in crossflow atomization. Computers & Fluids, 318:107230, 2026. [ DOI | http ] |
