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).
| [lande2026] |
Øystein Lande, Atle Jensen, and Thomas B Johannessen. A laboratory experiment and procedure for deterministic validation of numerical wave models. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1037:A2, June 2026. [ DOI ] |
| [deoclecio2026] |
Lucas H.P. Deoclecio, Edson J. Soares, Roney L. Thompson, and Stéphane Popinet. Bubble rise and interfacial coalescence initiation in elasto-viscoplastic materials. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 349:105597, 2026. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
| [yang2026] |
Shu Yang, Fahim Tanfeez Mahmood, and C. Ricardo Constante-Amores. End-pinching and inertial-capillary reopening in viscoplastic liquid ligaments at low ohnesorge number. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 11:073303, Jul 2026. [ DOI ] |
| [cattani2026] |
Michele Cattani and Pourya Forooghi. A study of bubble coalescence on solid substrates. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1040:A17, 2026. [ DOI ] |
