Basilisk (Gerris) Users' Meeting 2025

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Summary

The meeting will be held on the 7–9th July 2025 at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, in the Department of Engineering Science, in Lecture Room 1, Thom Building (Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ).

The format will be similar to earlier Basilisk/Gerris meetings held in Paris, France in 2011, Wellington, New Zealand in 2012, Sevilla, Spain in 2014, Princeton, USA in 2017, Paris, France in 2019 and Paris, France in 2023. Participants are encouraged to share their work using Basilisk (or Gerris) for applications in fluid mechanics, environmental science, engineering etc. Students are especially welcome to participate in this informal and friendly gathering.

Attendance is free of charge but registration is mandatory. If you are registered, please fill in the dinner survey before Monday 16th June. Among other things, this will communicate your dietary requirements.

Accommodation and travel to Oxford

Choosing hotels: Broadly you could expect to walk to the venue in about 20 minutes if you stay east of the river Thames, west of the river Cherwell, south of Belbroughton road (or thereabouts), and north of Christ Church meadow. You could stay further away if you like but it would mean either a longer walk or having to take alternative transport - which in Oxford traffic may not be quicker than walking. Hotels on George Street, and on neighbouring streets, are well-placed.

Some possibilities (certainly not exhaustive):

Old Parsonage, 1-3 Banbury Road, OX2 6NN

The Buttery, 11-12 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AP

The Randolph Inn, Beaumont Street, OX1 2LN

Cotswold Lodge Hotel, 66A Banbury Road, OX2 6JP

Bocardo 24-26 George St, Oxford OX1 2AE

To get to Oxford from London, the simplest options are by train from Paddington Station, or Marylebone Station, both of which are easily accessible via the Underground if arriving from the Eurostar, for example. If coming from Heathrow or Gatwick airports, there are also direct bus options, for example the confusingly named “Airline” bus.

Participants

As we have reached 100 participants, registration is closed. If you have registered and have changed your plans, please update the list below (using either your own Basilisk login or login guest, password bgum2025).

1. Wouter Mostert, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
2. Radu Cimpeanu, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
3. Stéphane Popinet, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France – What’s new and future plans.
4. Nausheen Basha, Imperial College London.
5. Vatsal Sanjay, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente – Can polymeric flows be the ‘Drosophila’ of continuum mechanics?
6. Riccardo Caraccio, Politecnico di Milano, IT – A One-Grid Framework for Pyrolysis of Porous Biomass Particles
7. Kaitao Tang, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
8. Nicolo Scapin, Princeton University, US – Progress in wind-forced breaking waves
9. Ayush Dixit, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente – Holey Sheets
10. Amin Soltani, Aarhus University, Denmark – Rising bubble in porous medium
11. Aman Bhargava, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente – Dancing droplets: the physics of post-impact retraction dynamics
12. Thomas Abadie, University of Birmingham, UK
13. Michele Cattani, Aarhus University,Denmark – On coalescence of bubbles attached to solid surfaces
14. Palas Kumar Farsoiya, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India.
15. Yuanpeng Zhang, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China. – Simulation of freezing/melting problem with phase-field method
16. Pierre-Antoine Maës, Institute for Combustion Technology, Aachen, Germany. – Study of the boundary layer for a solid particle combustion
17. Jnandeep Talukdar, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente
18. Mosayeb Shams, Imperial College London, UK
19. Debashis Panda, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
20. Abdullah M. Abdal, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
21. Tom Sykes, School of Engineering, University of Warwick
22. Antoine Aubert, LadHyX, Palaiseau, France – Turbulence Modelling using Basilisk
23. Canwei Jin, Imperial College London, UK – Coupled 2-D HOS-Basilisk simulations of multiple breaking waves in dispersively-focused wave groups
24. Jieyun Pan, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
25. Jie Li, University of Cambridge, UK
26. Ziyao Zhang, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
27. Paul-Peter Naanouh, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, France – Study of the marginal pinching of inertial films with the multilayer solver.
28. Jean Robin, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, ArcelorMittal, France – Melting of a porous iron particle in slag.
29. Wei Qin ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, Paris, France – Fluid dynamics of hydrogen production by electrolysis.
30. Tianyang Han, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
31. Daniel Fuster, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France – Regularization errors in the one-fluid formulation.
32. J.M. Lopez-Herrera, Dept. Ing. Aeroespacial y Mec. de Fluidos, ETSI, U. de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
33. M. A. Herrada, Dept. Ing. Aeroespacial y Mec. de Fluidos, ETSI, U. de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
34. Mina Jafari ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
35. Pierre-Yves Lagrée ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
36. Antoine Hajczak ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
37. Jacob Maarek ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université – Towards Modeling Non-Isothermal Sloshing of Liquid Hydrogen.
38. Mathilde Tavares ∂’Alembert Sorbonne Université, – Waves impulsed by a granular collapse.
39. Pavan Kumar Kirar, ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
40. Theo Witkamp, Fluids & Flows, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
41. Bruno Deremble, Université Grenoble Alpes, – Will the Gulf Stream disappear? (spoiler: No).
42. Sina Nozarian, Mechanical & Production Engineering Department, Aarhus University, Denmark – Numerical investigation of bubble-turbulence interaction near solid walls
43. Ilies Haouche, Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, University of Lille, France – Numerical method to simulate soluble surfactant at high Péclet numbers in Basilisk
44. Hiroya Watanabe, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
45. Mustapha Aknine, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France – Study of the effect of Regularization Errors on the developpement of Multiphase Fluid Instabilities
46. Eswara Arun Kishore, Marine Engineering, Indian Maritime University, Kolkata, India – Simulation of coupled ship motions and sloshing dynamics
47. Lars Willas Dreyer, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway – What goes in the water? Combining circulation models and sensor data
48. Jiarong Wu, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University – Sensitivity of upper ocean state to air-sea fluxes, tested with Basilisk’s GOTM implementation
49. Øystein Lande, Ocean Oasis AS & Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway – Validation work on wave breaking with the multilayer wave model
50. Victor Boniou, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France – Collision rate of finite-size monodisperse droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence
51. Marc Cordelle Vacher, LadHyX, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. – Jet impinging on a free-surface : jet flutter and self-induced sloshing
52. Ricardo Constante-Amores, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
53. Alfonso Castrejon-Pita, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
54. Ben Fudge, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
55. Sherry Majidi, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
56. Tharul Wanni Arachchige, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
57. Divya Shah, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
58. Marcus Logothetis, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
59. Ishar Toor, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
60. Jens Eggers, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.
61. Arnaud Antkowiak ∂’Alembert CNRS/Sorbonne Université
62. Vyankatesh Mundhada, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Sceience Education and Research, Bhopal. – Numerical modeling of macroscopic flows involving moving contact line
63. James Sprittles, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
64. Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, The Ocean Cleanup, The Netherlands – Basilisk and Plastic Marine Debris Tracking.
65. Miguel A. Quetzeri-Santiago, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico– Numerical investigation of jet impact cavity dynamics using Basilisk.
66. Fanshuo MA, ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
67. Ian Roberts, Aerotex UK
68. Sai Raja Gopal Vadlamudi, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.
69. Datong Wang, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. – Numerical study of drop impact on concave surface: spread, jet, and splash.
70. Yifan Han, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany – Wetting effects on the dynamics of droplets and bubbles at surfaces.
71. Gerd Mutschke, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.
72. Minerva Schuler, Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK.
73. Muwanguzi Stephen Kyazze, College of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
74. Ahmed Basil KOTTILINGAL, Paris
75. Sebastian Dooley, Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK.
76. Francesco Picella, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France – Modelling microswimmer instabilities with embed.
77. Fei He Department of Engineering and Science, University of Oxford, UK
78. Peter Lewin-Jones, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK
79. Aston Over, Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
80. Anurag Muthyala, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
81. Edoardo Cipriano, Politecnico di Milano, IT – Current state of gas-liquid phase change modeling in Basilisk.
82. Tianning Tang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester
83. Xiaosheng Chen, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
84. Zheni Fei, Department of Engineerinng Science, University of Oxford,UK
85. Xinyu Liu, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
86. Xinhao Huang, Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
87. Nguyen Quang Chien, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
88. Jiayu Li, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
89. Shiqi (Shawn) Qu, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
90. Om Mahesh Kumar Prajapati, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
91. Boran Celik, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK .
92. Gena Panaser, University of Birmingham, UK
93. Jacob Cook, University of Warwick, UK
94. Lyllian Chanerley, University of Warwick, UK
95. Nicolas Cailler, D’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France – Viscosity as a regularization mechanism for conical cavity collapse like bursting bubbles

Preliminary program

The final program will be announced mid-June.

Organisers

• Wouter Mostert, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
• Radu Cimpeanu, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
• Stéphane Popinet, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France.

Previous meetings

• Basilisk/Gerris Users’ Meeting 2023
• Basilisk/Gerris Users’ Meeting 2019
• Basilisk/Gerris Users’ Meeting 2017
• Meeting on Numerical challenges in two-phase flows 2014
• Gerris Users’ meeting 2012
• Gerris Users’ meeting 2011