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
See also the POM Gallery.
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).
| [saini2025] |
Mandeep Saini, Vatsal Sanjay, Youssef Saade, Detlef Lohse, and Stéphane Popinet. Implementation of integral surface tension formulations in a volume of fluid framework and their applications to Marangoni flows. Journal of Computational Physics, September 2025. [ http | .pdf ] |
| [boswell2025] |
Hunter Boswell, Frank D. Han, Guirong Yan, and Wouter Mostert. Energetics analysis of solitary waves using a multi-layer model. Coastal Engineering, page 104868, 2025. [ DOI | http ] |
| [li2025] |
Mogeng Li, Youssef Saade, Stéphane Zaleski, Uddalok Sen, Pallav Kant, and Detlef Lohse. Viscoelasticity reduces the droplet size in mucosalivary film fragmentation during intense respiratory events. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 10:084001, Aug 2025. [ DOI | arXiv | http ] |
| [alessio2025] |
Benjamin M. Alessio and Ankur Gupta. Fisher-kpp model with chemotaxis over fractal terrains. Phys. Rev. E, 112:024213, Aug 2025. [ DOI | http ] |
