Basilisk is a numerical simulation framework for solving partial differential equations on adaptive Cartesian meshes.
It’s the successor to Gerris and is designed for computational fluid dynamics and related scientific modelling tasks, with a C-based programming environment, ready-made solvers, examples, tests, and extensive online documentation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Solves partial differential equations on adaptive Cartesian meshes.
- Includes solvers for Saint-Venant equations, Navier-Stokes flows, electrohydrodynamics, viscoelasticity, reaction-diffusion systems, and Poisson-Helmholtz problems.
- Provides Basilisk C, an extension of the C programming language for writing discretisation schemes on Cartesian grids.
- Supports one, two, and three dimensional simulations, multigrids, adaptive grids, boundary conditions, and event based workflows.
- Offers utilities for data processing, field statistics, droplet counting, harmonic decomposition, and performance monitoring.
- Supports output formats including VTK, ESRI ASCII Grid, Portable PixMap images, Basilisk snapshots, and Gerris simulation files.
- Includes tutorials, examples, tests, installation instructions, and a user forum.
Website: basilisk.fr
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Developer: Stéphane Popinet and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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