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:

Picture of the month

Isothermal Evaporation of a Static Binary Droplet: Evolution of the mass fraction fields of the light, heavy, and inert components, and the grid refinement. See Edoardo Cipriano’s sandbox and Cipriano et al, 2024.

News

Dimensional Analysis in the latest release: see the new Tutorial
Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2023, 5–7th July, Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris. Program and presentations
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting TBA
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)

[cipriano2024]	Edoardo Cipriano, Abd Essamade Saufi, Alessio Frassoldati, Tiziano Faravelli, Stéphane Popinet, and Alberto Cuoci. Multicomponent Droplet Evaporation in a Geometric Volume-Of-Fluid Framework. Journal of Computational Physics, 507:112955, June 2024. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[saini2024]	Mandeep Saini, Youssef Saade, Daniel Fuster, and Detlef Lohse. Finite speed of sound effects on asymmetry in multibubble cavitation. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 9:043602, 2024. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[thale2024]	Vinod Ashok Thale, Mostafa Abouelsoud, Hossain Chizari, and Marie-Jean Thoraval. Impact force of an air-in-liquid compound drop. Physics of Fluids, 36(2):022110, 02 2024. [ http \| .pdf ]
[garcía2024]	P. García-Geijo, G. Riboux, and J.M. Gordillo. The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 980:A35, 2024. [ DOI ]