diff --git a/mosaic/benchmarks/problems/navier_stokes_grid/exclusions.py b/mosaic/benchmarks/problems/navier_stokes_grid/exclusions.py
index a1d64f79..e39109b6 100644
--- a/mosaic/benchmarks/problems/navier_stokes_grid/exclusions.py
+++ b/mosaic/benchmarks/problems/navier_stokes_grid/exclusions.py
@@ -38,9 +38,12 @@
 )
 INS_JL_NO_OBSTACLE = Exclusion(
     ExclusionCategory.CATEGORICAL,
-    "no IBM or volume penalization — the cylinder obstacle cannot be "
-    "represented in INS.jl; spectral/LU pressure projection is also "
-    "periodic-only",
+    "this tesseract represents the cylinder by hard-mask Brinkman "
+    "penalization (velocity zeroed after each projection), which is "
+    "projection-inconsistent and diverges; INS.jl itself supports the "
+    "obstacle via a finite Brinkman forcing term with its native channel "
+    "BCs (Dirichlet inflow, pressure outflow, LU/DCT pressure solvers "
+    "handle non-periodic BCs), but that route is not implemented here",
 )
 WARP_NS_NO_OBSTACLE = Exclusion(
     ExclusionCategory.CATEGORICAL,
diff --git a/mosaic/tesseracts/navier-stokes-grid/ins-jl/tesseract_config.yaml b/mosaic/tesseracts/navier-stokes-grid/ins-jl/tesseract_config.yaml
index 22eeb6e3..ec52a354 100644
--- a/mosaic/tesseracts/navier-stokes-grid/ins-jl/tesseract_config.yaml
+++ b/mosaic/tesseracts/navier-stokes-grid/ins-jl/tesseract_config.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 name: ins_navier_stokes_grid
 version: "0.1.0"
 description: >
-  Julia finite-difference solver with spectral pressure projection and RK4 time integration;
-  CPU-only. Differentiates through the time loop via Zygote.jl reverse-mode AD.
+  Julia staggered finite-volume solver with spectral pressure projection and RK4 time
+  integration; run on CPU in this benchmark (the library itself also supports CUDA via
+  KernelAbstractions.jl). Differentiates through the time loop via Zygote.jl reverse-mode AD.
 build_config:
   custom_build_steps:
     - "RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends wget ca-certificates gcc g++ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*"
@@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ metadata:
     name: "INS.jl"
     backend: julia
     family: projection
-    scheme: "FD + projection"
-    discretization: FD
+    scheme: "FV + projection"
+    discretization: FV
     numerics: "Projection, RK4"
     ad_strategy: autodiff
     differentiable: true