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

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. If you are registered, please fill in the dinner survey before Monday 16th June.
Release ‘25-02-26 (macros)’, see NEWS for details.
Next Basilisk Monthly Meeting: June 23rd, 4pm CEST
Recent publications (see Bibliography for more).

[wu2025]	Jiarong Wu, Stéphane Popinet, Bertrand Chapron, J. Thomas Farrar, and Luc Deike. Turbulence and energy dissipation from wave breaking. Journal of Physical Oceanography, June 2025. [ http \| .pdf ]
[kulkarni2025]	Yash Kulkarni, Cesar Pairetti, Raphaël Villiers, Stéphane Popinet, and Stéphane Zaleski. The atomising pulsed jet. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1009:A35, May 2025. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[scapin2025]	Nicolò Scapin, Jiarong Wu, J. Thomas Farrar, Bertrand Chapron, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike. Momentum fluxes in wind-forced breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1009:A20 (33p.), April 2025. [ DOI \| http \| .pdf ]
[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 ]