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).
| [mou2026] |
Zeyang Mou, Zheng Zheng, Zhen Jian, Carlo Antonini, Christophe Josserand, and Marie-Jean Thoraval. Singular jets and entrapments from compound drop impact. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 11:013602, January 2026. [ DOI | http ] |
| [scapin2025b] |
Nicolò Scapin, Jiarong Wu, J. Thomas Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike. Growth Rate and Energy Dissipation in Wind-Forced Breaking Waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(1):e2025GL117901, 2026. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
| [wang2026] |
Bo Wang, Zhidian Yang, and Francesco Romanò. Cavitation bubble near a wall: Sensitivity to modeling conditions. Technische Mechanik-European Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 46(1):66–77, 2026. [ http ] |
| [Huang2026] |
Wenge Huang, Mohammad Shamsodini Lori, Anchenyi Yang, Kai Zhuang, Yuanhao Cheng, Mojun Chen, Chao Sun, Tingzhen Ming, Huachen Cui, and Jiangtao Cheng. Bubble-burst-induced puddle jumping and jet printing. Nature Communications, 17:1818, 2026. [ DOI | http ] |
