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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News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Program and presentations.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 16:00 CEST
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).

[vleesschhouwers2026]	D. Vleeschhouwers, N. Hidman, A. Åkesjö, H. Ström, and S. Sasic. Liquid supersaturation in evaporating vertical falling films — a direct numerical simulation study. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 255:127760, 2026. [ DOI \| http ]
[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, 542:114348, December 2025. [ DOI \| 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 ]
[vrionis2025]	Panayiotis Yiannis Vrionis, Andreas D. Demou, George Karapetsas, Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, and Nikos Savva. An efficient and highly scalable solver for modelling thin film flows in heterogeneous environments. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 39:37, 2025. [ DOI ]