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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    [deAquino2025]

    Guilherme Siqueira de Aquino, Sylvain Viroulet, Nicolas Sasso, and Julie Albagnac. Interaction regimes of a vortex ring and an inertial particle. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1024:A55, December 2025. [ DOI | http ]
    [fullana2025]

    Tomas Fullana, Stéphane Zaleski, and Gustav Amberg. Mass diffusion and bending in dynamic wetting by phase-field and sharp-interface models. Physical Review E , 112(4):045108, October 2025. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]
    [xu2025]

    Yiqian Xu, Kai Mu, Ran Qiao, Chengxi Zhao, and Ting Si. Theoretical and numerical studies on azimuthal modes transition of viscoelastic swirling liquid jets. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 10:124002, Dec 2025. [ DOI | http ]
    [eshima2025]

    Jun Eshima, Tristan Aurégan, Palas Kumar Farsoiya, Stéphane Popinet, Howard A. Stone, and Luc Deike. Size Amplification of Jet Drops due to Insoluble Surfactants. Physical Review Fluids, 2025. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]