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

Multilayer model of the wave field generated by a volcanic eruption under lake Taupo, New Zealand. Left: dispersive, right: non-dispersive. From Hayward et al, 2022.
News
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting Tuesday 3rd May
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more)
[chirco2022] |
Leonardo Chirco, Jacob Maarek, Stéphane Popinet, and Stéphane Zaleski. Manifold death: a Volume of Fluid implementation of controlled topological changes in thin sheets by the signature method. Journal of Computational Physics, July 2022. [ http ] |
[mostert2022] |
Wouter Mostert, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike. High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942(A27), April 2022. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
[uchida2022] |
Takaya Uchida, Bruno Deremble, and Stéphane Popinet. Deterministic model of the eddy dynamics for a midlatitude ocean model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2022. [ DOI | http | .pdf ] |
[zhang2022] |
Bo Zhang, Bradley Boyd, and Yue Ling. Direct numerical simulation of compressible interfacial multiphase flows using a mass–momentum–energy consistent volume-of-fluid method. Computers & Fluids, 236:105267, 2022. [ DOI | http ] |