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

The Gulf Stream

News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Registration is open
Congratulations to Jiarong Wu! who is a runner up for JFM’s Emerging Scholar Best Paper 2023, see also Wu et al, 2023 and the POM Gallery.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: Wednesday 29th January 4pm CET
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)

[warburton2024]	K. L. P. Warburton, C. R. Meyer, and A. N. Sommers. Predicting the onset of subglacial drainage channels. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(12):e2024JF007758, 2024. [ DOI \| http ]
[vrionis2024]	P.-Y. Vrionis, Andreas D. Demou, and Nikos Savva. Condensation dynamics on inclined heterogeneous substrates. International Journal of Thermofluids, 23:100782, 2024. [ DOI \| http ]
[bergin2024]	Claire Bergin, Wouter Mostert, Vikram Pakrashi, and Frederic Dias. A numerical investigation into the interaction between rain and water waves. Computers & Fluids, page 106534, 2024. [ DOI \| http ]
[balasubramanian2024]	Arivazhagan G. Balasubramanian, Vatsal Sanjay, Maziyar Jalaal, Ricardo Vinuesa, and Outi Tammisola. Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1001:A9, 2024. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]