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

Comparison between experiment and simulation for the impact of a 1.6 mm FC-770 droplet onto a silicon oil pool. From Fudge et al, 2023.
News
Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2023: 5–7th July. Registration is now closed
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting Wednesday June 7, 2023 4pm CET
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)
[hidman2023] |
Niklas Hidman, Henrik Ström, Srdjan Sasic, and Gaetano Sardina. Assessing passive scalar dynamics in bubble-induced turbulence using direct numerical simulations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 962:A32, 2023. [ DOI ] |
[roggeveen2023] |
J V Roggeveen, H A Stone, and C Kurzthaler. Transport of a passive scalar in wide channels with surface topography: An asymptotic theory. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 35(27):274003, apr 2023. [ DOI | http ] |
[fudge2023] |
Ben D. Fudge, Radu Cimpeanu, Arnaud Antkowiak, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, and Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita. Drop splashing after impact onto immiscible pools of different viscosities. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 641:585–594, 2023. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
[deo2023] |
Indu Kant Deo, Rui Gao, and Rajeev K. Jaiman. Combined space-time reduced-order model with three-dimensional deep convolution for extrapolating fluid dynamics. Physics of Fluids, 0(ja):null, 0. [ DOI | www: ] |