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

    Assessing passive scalar dynamics in bubble-induced turbulence using direct numerical simulations by Hidman et al, 2023

    Assessing passive scalar dynamics in bubble-induced turbulence using direct numerical simulations by Hidman et al, 2023

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    News

    [thale2024]

    Vinod Ashok Thale, Mostafa Abouelsoud, Hossain Chizari, and Marie-Jean Thoraval. Impact force of an air-in-liquid compound drop. Physics of Fluids, 36(2):022110, 02 2024. [ http | .pdf ]

    [garcía2024]

    P. García-Geijo, G. Riboux, and J.M. Gordillo. The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 980:A35, 2024. [ DOI ]

    [ray2023]

    Saroj Ray, Yu Han, and Song Cheng. Pinch-off dynamics in unequal-size droplets head-on collision on a wetting surface: Experiments and direct numerical simulations. Physics of Fluids, 35(12):122105, 2023. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]

    [liu2023]

    Shuo Liu, Hui Wang, Annie-Claude Bayeul-Lainé, Cheng Li, Joseph Katz, and Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. Wave statistics and energy dissipation of shallow-water breaking waves in a tank with a level bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 975:A25, 2023. [ DOI ]