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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Picture of the month

Vatsal and Basilisk are on the covers of Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Balasubramanian et al., 2024 and Sanjay et al., 2025).

News

Basilisk (Gerris) Users’ Meeting 2025, 7–9th July, University of Oxford, Registration is closed.
Release ‘25-02-26 (macros)’, see NEWS for details.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: May 27th 4pm CET
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).

[gai2025]	Guodong Gai, Damien P. Huet, Jiahao Gong, and Anthony Wachs. Deformation, dynamics and rheology of immersed elastic capsules in an inertial shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1010:A52, 2025. [ DOI ]
[aljedaani2025]	Abdulrahman B. Aljedaani, Muhammad F. Afzaal, Kenneth R. Langley, Zi Qiang Yang, and S.T. Thoroddsen. Double crown during drop impact on an immiscible shallow pool. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1010:A32, 2025. [ DOI ]
[maes2025]	Pierre-Antoine Maës, Alidad Amirfazli, and Christophe Josserand. Birth of a bubble: drop impact onto a thin liquid film for an immiscible three-fluid system. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1009:A8, 2025. [ DOI ]
[patel2025]	Kuntal Patel, Jun Sun, Zixuan Yang, and Xiaojue Zhu. Coupled liquid–gas flow over a submerged cylinder: interface topology, wake structure and hydrodynamic lift. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1008:A10, 2025. [ DOI ]