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*Basiliscus basiliscus* is the latin name of the extraordinary [Jesus
Christ lizard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_basilisk), famous
for its ability to run on the surface of water, a characteristic it
shares with another well-known water-walker [*Gerris
lacustris*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerris_lacustris).

Basilisk is also the name of a [Free
Software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) program for the
solution of 
[partial differential equations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_differential_equation)
on adaptive Cartesian meshes. It is the successor of [Gerris](http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr) and is
developed by the same [authors](src/AUTHORS).

If you want to find out more about Basilisk see:

* [Tutorial]()
* [Installation instructions](src/INSTALL)
* [Basilisk C]()
* [Solvers and functions](src/README)
* [Examples](src/examples/README)
* [Tests](src/test/README)
* [More documentation](sandbox/documentation)

## Picture of the month

<div class="figure">
<video controls="" preload="metadata" width="600">
+<source src="/sandbox/ecipriano/run/staticbi/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
<p class="caption">
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](/sandbox/ecipriano/run/staticbi.c) and [Cipriano et al, 2024](Bibliography#cipriano2024).
</p>
</div>

See also the [POM Gallery]().

## News

* **Dimensional Analysis** in the latest release: see the new
    [Tutorial](Tutorial.dimensions)

* **[Basilisk (Gerris) Users' Meeting 2023](BGUM2023), 5--7th July, Pierre & Marie Curie Campus, Paris. [Program and presentations](BGUM2023#program)**

* Next [Basilisk Monthly Meeting](BMM/README) TBA

* Recent publications (see [Bibliography]() for more)

~~~bib
@hal{cipriano2024, hal-04252476}

@article{saini2024,
  title = {Finite speed of sound effects on asymmetry in multibubble cavitation},
  author = {Saini, Mandeep and Saade, Youssef and Fuster, Daniel and Lohse, Detlef},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Fluids},
  volume = {9},
  issue = {4},
  pages = {043602},
  numpages = {15},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.043602},
  url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.043602},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02237.pdf}
}

@article{thale2024,
    author = {Thale, Vinod Ashok and Abouelsoud, Mostafa and Chizari, Hossain and Thoraval, Marie-Jean},
    title = {Impact force of an air-in-liquid compound drop},
    journal = {Physics of Fluids},
    volume = {36},
    number = {2},
    pages = {022110},
    year = {2024},
    month = {02},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0183822},
    pdf = {https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0183822/19668472/022110\_1\_5.0183822.pdf},
}

@article{garcía2024, 
  title={The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers}, 
  volume={980}, 
  DOI={10.1017/jfm.2024.20}, 
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics}, 
  author={García-Geijo, P. and Riboux, G. and Gordillo, J.M.}, 
  year={2024}, 
  pages={A35}
}
~~~