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.
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.
Program
Monday 7th July | |
13:30 |
Welcome. Wouter Mostert, Radu Cimpeanu and Stéphane Popinet
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14:00 |
Stéphane Popinet, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France What’s new and future plans |
14:20 |
Jacob Maarek, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France Towards Modeling Non-Isothermal Sloshing of Liquid Hydrogen |
14:40 |
Pierre-Antoine Maës, Institute for Combustion Technology, Aachen, Germany |
15:00 |
Yuanpeng Zhang, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China Simulation of freezing/melting problem with phase-field method |
15:20 |
Wei Qin, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, Paris, France Fluid dynamics of hydrogen production by electrolysis |
15:40 |
Vatsal Sanjay, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente Can polymeric flows be the ‘Drosophila’ of continuum mechanics? |
16:00 |
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16:20 |
Marc Cordelle Vacher, LadHyX, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France Jet impinging on a free-surface : jet flutter and self-induced sloshing |
16:40 |
Miguel A. Quetzeri-Santiago, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico Numerical investigation of jet impact cavity dynamics using Basilisk |
17:00 |
Ayush Dixit, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente Holey Sheets |
17:20 |
Francesco Picella, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France Modelling microswimmer instabilities with embed |
17:40 |
Riccardo Caraccio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy A One-Grid Framework for Pyrolysis of Porous Biomass Particles |
Tuesday 8th July | |
8:30 |
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9:00 |
Canwei Jin, Imperial College London, UK Coupled 2-D HOS-Basilisk simulations of multiple breaking waves in dispersively-focused wave groups |
9:20 |
Eswara Arun Kishore, Marine Engineering, Indian Maritime University, Kolkata, India Simulation of coupled ship motions and sloshing dynamics |
9:40 |
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 |
10:00 |
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10:20 |
Lars Willas Dreyer, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway What goes in the water? Combining circulation models and sensor data |
10:40 |
Palas Kumar Farsoiya, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India Surfactant transport at high Peclet numberss |
11:00 |
Nicolo Scapin, Princeton University, USA Progress in wind-forced breaking waves |
11:20 |
Mathilde Tavares, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France Waves impulsed by a granular collapse |
11:40 |
Bruno Deremble, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Will the Gulf Stream disappear? (spoiler: No) |
12:00 – 13:40 |
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13:40 |
Øystein Lande, Ocean Oasis AS & Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Validation work on wave breaking with the multilayer wave model |
14:00 |
Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, The Ocean Cleanup, The Netherlands Basilisk and Plastic Marine Debris Tracking |
14:20 |
Jean Robin, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, ArcelorMittal, France Melting of a porous iron particle in slag |
14:40 |
Panel discussion (1h, industry representatives, Q&A)
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15:40 |
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16:00 |
Daniel Fuster, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France Regularization errors in the one-fluid formulation |
16:20 |
Mustapha Aknine, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France Study of the effect of Regularization Errors on the developpement of Multiphase Fluid Instabilities |
16:40 |
Edoardo Cipriano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Current state of gas-liquid phase change modeling in Basilisk |
17:00 |
Antoine Aubert, LadHyX, Palaiseau, France Turbulence Modelling using Basilisk |
17:20 |
Sina Nozarian, Mechanical & Production Engineering Department, Aarhus University, Denmark Numerical investigation of bubble-turbulence interaction near solid walls |
17:40 |
Victor Boniou, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France Collision rate of finite-size monodisperse droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence |
19:00 |
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Wednesday 9th July | |
8:30 |
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9:00 |
Aman Bhargava, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente Dancing droplets: the physics of post-impact retraction dynamics |
9:20 |
Datong Wang, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France Numerical study of drop impact on concave surface: spread, jet, and splash. |
9:40 |
Vyankatesh Mundhada, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India Numerical modeling of macroscopic flows involving moving contact line |
10:00 |
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 |
10:20 |
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10:40 |
Paul-Peter Naanouh, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, France Study of the marginal pinching of inertial films with the multilayer solver |
11:00 |
Yifan Han, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, German Wetting effects on the dynamics of droplets and bubbles at surfaces |
11:20 |
Amin Soltani, Aarhus University, Denmark Rising bubble in porous medium |
11:40 |
Nicolas Cailler, D’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France Viscosity as a regularization mechanism for conical cavity collapse like bursting bubbles |
12:00 |
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14:00 – 17:00 |
Closing and free time for discussions
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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).
- 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
- Nausheen Basha, Imperial College London.
- Vatsal Sanjay, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente
- Riccardo Caraccio, Politecnico di Milano, IT
- Kaitao Tang, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Nicolo Scapin, Princeton University, US
- Ayush Dixit, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente
- Amin Soltani, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Aman Bhargava, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente
- Thomas Abadie, University of Birmingham, UK
- Palas Kumar Farsoiya, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. – Surfactant transport at high Peclet numbers.
- Yuanpeng Zhang, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China
- Pierre-Antoine Maës, Institute for Combustion Technology, Aachen, Germany
- Jnandeep Talukdar, Physics of Fluids, Univ. Twente
- Mosayeb Shams, Imperial College London, UK
- Debashis Panda, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
- Abdullah M. Abdal, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
- Tom Sykes, School of Engineering, University of Warwick
- Antoine Aubert, LadHyX, Palaiseau, France
- Canwei Jin, Imperial College London, UK
- Jieyun Pan, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
- Jie Li, University of Cambridge, UK
- Ziyao Zhang, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Paul-Peter Naanouh, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, France
- Jean Robin, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, ArcelorMittal, France
- Wei Qin ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne, Paris, France
- Tianyang Han, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
- Daniel Fuster, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
- J.M. Lopez-Herrera, Dept. Ing. Aeroespacial y Mec. de Fluidos, ETSI, U. de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
- M. A. Herrada, Dept. Ing. Aeroespacial y Mec. de Fluidos, ETSI, U. de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
- Mina Jafari ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
- Pierre-Yves Lagrée ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
- Antoine Hajczak ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
- Jacob Maarek ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
- Mathilde Tavares ∂’Alembert Sorbonne Université
- Pavan Kumar Kirar, ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Theo Witkamp, Fluids & Flows, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Bruno Deremble, Université Grenoble Alpes
- Sina Nozarian, Mechanical & Production Engineering Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Ilies Haouche, Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, University of Lille, France
- Hiroya Watanabe, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Mustapha Aknine, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
- Eswara Arun Kishore, Marine Engineering, Indian Maritime University, Kolkata, India
- Lars Willas Dreyer, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Jiarong Wu, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- Øystein Lande, Ocean Oasis AS & Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Victor Boniou, IFP-Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
- Marc Cordelle Vacher, LadHyX, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- Alfonso Castrejon-Pita, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Ben Fudge, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Sherry Majidi, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
- Tharul Wanni Arachchige, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
- Divya Shah, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
- Marcus Logothetis, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
- Ishar Toor, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK.
- Jens Eggers, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.
- Arnaud Antkowiak ∂’Alembert CNRS/Sorbonne Université
- Vyankatesh Mundhada, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Sceience Education and Research, Bhopal
- James Sprittles, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
- Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, The Ocean Cleanup, The Netherlands
- Miguel A. Quetzeri-Santiago, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico
- Fanshuo MA, ∂’Alembert CNRS Sorbonne Université
- Ian Roberts, Aerotex UK
- Sai Raja Gopal Vadlamudi, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.
- Datong Wang, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- Yifan Han, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
- Gerd Mutschke, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.
- Minerva Schuler, Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK.
- Muwanguzi Stephen Kyazze, College of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
- Ahmed Basil KOTTILINGAL, Paris
- Sebastian Dooley, Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK.
- Francesco Picella, ∂’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
- Fei He Department of Engineering and Science, University of Oxford, UK
- Peter Lewin-Jones, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK
- Aston Over, Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
- Anurag Muthyala, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
- Edoardo Cipriano, Politecnico di Milano, IT
- Tianning Tang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester
- Xiaosheng Chen, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Zheni Fei, Department of Engineerinng Science, University of Oxford,UK
- Xinyu Liu, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
- Xinhao Huang, Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
- Nguyen Quang Chien, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Jiayu Li, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Shiqi (Shawn) Qu, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
- Om Mahesh Kumar Prajapati, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK
- Boran Celik, The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, UK .
- Gena Panaser, University of Birmingham, UK
- Jacob Cook, University of Warwick, UK
- Lyllian Chanerley, University of Warwick, UK
- Nicolas Cailler, D’Alembert, Sorbonne & CNRS, Paris, France
- Eduard Khramchenkov, slb Abingdon Technology Centre, UK
- Isabella Zarpellon Nascimento, Sorbonne, Paris, France
- Duygu Sap, Maths Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
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.