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

Faraday waves in rectangular containers by Andrés Castillo-Castellanos

News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Registration is open.
Release ‘25-02-26 (macros)’, see NEWS for details.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: TBA.
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).

[sharaborin2025]	Evgenii L. Sharaborin, Oleg A. Rogozin, and Aslan R. Kasimov. Break-up of the Taylor bubble. Computers & Fluids, page 106577, February 2025. [ DOI \| http ]
[zhao2025]	Shuo Zhao, Jie Zhang, Chao Sun, and Ming-Jiu Ni. Direct numerical simulations of leidenfrost drop impacting onto superheated liquid pool: an early stage study. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1007:A13, 2025. [ DOI ]
[wang2025]	Ning Wang, Zhenyu Zhang, Peng Zhang, and Changlu Zhao. Towards quantitative prediction of droplet collision outcomes: A dual-vof approach with rarefied gas effect and augmented van der waals force. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 188:105207, 2025. [ DOI \| http ]
[chen2025]	Xiangbin Chen, Tianyang Han, Jieyun Pan, Daniel Fuster, and Stéphane Zaleski. Volume-conserving method for dynamic contact line on complex surfaces. Physics of Fluids, 37(2):023392, 02 2025. [ DOI \| arXiv \| http ]