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, 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)
| [shen2025] |
Naijian Shen, Y Kulkarni, T Jamin, S Popinet, S Zaleski, and L Bourouiba. Fragmentation from inertial detachment of a sessile droplet: implications for pathogen transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1002:A6, 2025. [ DOI ] |
| [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 ] |
