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 “beads on string” structure of a thinning viscoelastic jet (Zinelis et al, 2024)

News

Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, November 26th 4pm CET
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.
Basilisk can now run on GPUs: see GPU grids and GPU Benchmarks.
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)

[cranmer2024]	Jakub A. Cranmer, Evgenii Sharaborin, Sepideh Khodaparast, Giovanni Giustini, and Mirco Magnini. Non-negligible buoyancy effect on bubbles travelling in horizontal microchannels of comparable size at small Bond numbers. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 181:105019, December 2024. [ DOI ]
[yu2024]	Boyuan Yu and Vincent H. Chu. Roll waves on laminar sheet flow of newtonian fluid with negligible surface tension. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 999:A49, November 2024. [ DOI ]
[shi2024]	Pengyu Shi, Jie Zhang, and Jacques Magnaudet. Lateral migration and bouncing of a deformable bubble rising near a vertical wall. part 1. moderately inertial regimes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 998:A8, October 2024. [ DOI ]
[zinelis2024]	Konstantinos Zinelis, Thomas Abadie, Gareth H. McKinley, and Omar K. Matar. Transition to elasto-capillary thinning dynamics in viscoelastic jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 998:A4, October 2024. [ DOI ]