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

Breaking wave field with the colour indicating the surface velocity and inset showing the curvature-based detection of the breaking front. From Wu et al, 2023.

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)

[deoclecio2023]	Lucas H.P. Deoclecio, Edson Soares, and Stéphane Popinet. Drop rise and interfacial coalescence initiation in Bingham materials. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 319:105075, September 2023. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[wu2023]	Jiarong Wu, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike. Breaking wave field statistics with a multi-layer model. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 968:A12, July 2023. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[huet2023]	Damien P Huet and Anthony Wachs. A cartesian-octree adaptive front-tracking solver for immersed biological capsules in large complex domains. Journal of Computational Physics, page 112424, 2023. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[ellevold2023]	Thea J Ellevold and John Grue. Calculation of internal-wave-driven instability and vortex shedding along a flat bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 966:A40, 2023.