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

Typical sequence of splashing events for a water drop impacting a deep water pool (Fig. 2 from Wang et al. 2025)

News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Program and presentations.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: TBA
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).

[liu2026]	Liu Liu, Yixin Huang, Yixiang Liao, Heyang Zhang, and Hongjie Yan. Direct numerical simulation of side-by-side rising bubble coalescence behavior based on a weber number criterion. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 194:105470, 2026. [ DOI \| http ]
[boniou2025]	Victor Boniou, Stephane Jay, Guillaume Vinay, and Jean-Lou Pierson. Collision statistics of finite-size monodisperse droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1020:A18, October 2025. [ DOI ]
[burghelea2025]	Teodor Burghelea and Miguel Moyers-González. Elasticity mediated yielding of an elasto-viscoplastic fluid in a plane channel flow. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, September 2025. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[wang2025]	Hui Wang, Shuo Liu, Annie-Claude Bayeul-Lainé, David Murphy, Joseph Katz, and Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. Splashing regimes of high-speed drop impact. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1019:A16, 2025. [ DOI ]