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.

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Picture of the month

The Gulf Stream

News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Registration is open
Congratulations to Jiarong Wu! who is a runner up for JFM’s Emerging Scholar Best Paper 2023, see also Wu et al, 2023 and the POM Gallery.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, February 25th, 4pm CET
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)

[xu2025]	Cheng Xu, Wanyu Zhu, Huihui Xia, and Weiwei Deng. Double bursting jets from a suspended water drop under one cycle of oscillation. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, page 105151, 2025. [ DOI ]
[dasgupta2025]	Lohit Kayal, Vatsal Sanjay, Nikhil Yewale, Anil Kumar, and Ratul Dasgupta. Focussing of concentric free-surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1003:A14, 2025. [ DOI ]
[sanjay2025]	Vatsal Sanjay, Bin Zhang, Cunjing Lv, and Detlef Lohse. The role of viscosity on drop impact forces on non-wetting surfaces. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1004:A6, 2025. [ DOI ]
[shen2025]	Naijian Shen, Y Kulkarni, T Jamin, S Popinet, S Zaleski, and L Bourouiba. Fragmentation from inertial detachment of a sessile droplet: implications for pathogen transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1002:A6, 2025. [ DOI ]