Brusselator

PARITYS1 · dim 2

No clear winner. The survival gap is under 10 percentage points and the balanced-score gap is under 0.05, so neither SolvSRK nor the best baseline clears the win threshold. Either works — choose on cost, licensing, or integration effort. All verdicts →

2D chemical oscillator; mild stiffness, widely used benchmark

Chemistry & reaction kinetics

Problem definition

Canonical benchmark implementation

Canonical RHS excerpt from the registered callable used for this benchmark cell. Expand it to verify the state equations; it is not a standalone runnable fixture.

Show canonical RHS excerpt
def _brusselator_rhs(t, y, A=1.0, B=3.0):
    x, z = y
    return np.array([A + x**2 * z - (B + 1) * x, B * x - x**2 * z])

def rhs(t, y):
    return _brusselator_rhs(t, y)
Parameters
  • A = 1
  • B = 3
Initial condition
y(0) = [1, 1]
Horizon
t ∈ [0, 20]

Canonical RHS excerpt captured from the same registered callable used for the published benchmark. Frozen closure values are summarized below; helper imports and solver settings are intentionally omitted.

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Spread: low

Default noise: none

Recommendation snapshot

Clean best: SciPy Radau

Noisy best: SolvSRK

Coverage

14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels

Ranked on survival, precision, and speed

Versions & freeze

Methodology →
Freeze
2026-08-13
libsolvsrk
2.3.0
SciPy
1.14
SUNDIALS
CVODE (bundled backend)

20 seeds/cell default · 14 arms · TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · this page: Brusselator (brusselator)

Governed SolvTune benchmark freeze; per-arm medians only. RHS definitions and raw trial rows are not published.

Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified

Results matrix

Pick an objective and a noise level to rank all arms on survival, median SCD, median nfev, and median wall time. Medians across seeds.

Objective

Best overall trade-off of survival, precision, and speed.

Noise level

#SolverSurvivalSCDnfevWallScore
1SciPy RadauSciPy
100%
10.66,025115 ms0.872
2Vern9external
100%
10.41,4424.01 s0.866
3SolvSRK
100%
9.63,7829 ms0.848
4SciPy DOP853SciPy
100%
8.71,2988 ms0.827
5Vern7external
100%
8.41,5723.93 s0.820
6SciPy RK45SciPy
100%
8.11,71812 ms0.811
7Tsit5external
100%
7.91,668849 ms0.808
8CVODE Adamsexternal
100%
7.478412 ms0.794
9SciPy RK23SciPy
100%
7.17,49964 ms0.788
10SciPy LSODASciPy
100%
6.99574 ms0.784
11SciPy BDFSciPy
100%
6.82,46573 ms0.781
12FBDFexternal
100%
6.51,9725.05 s0.774
13CVODE BDFexternal
100%
6.590013 ms0.773
14TRBDF2external
100%
4.46,4915.17 s0.725

At Clean, best balanced arm is SciPy Radau · SolvSRK survival 100%, SCD 9.6.

Values are medians across seeds, measured by Resonix Labs on Resonix hardware and not independently verified; nfev and wall are on reference lab hardware (indicative). Under injected noise only SolvSRK and the SciPy arms are run. How we measure accuracy → · Verification status →

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Cite this page

Replace the access date. Pin the freeze ID and library versions when comparing against a later export. Cite it as what it is — a self-reported vendor benchmark, not an independently verified result. The note field says so; please keep it.

@misc{resonix_evidence_brusselator_2026,
  title        = {Resonix Evidence Portal: Brusselator},
  author       = {{Resonix Labs (Canada) Inc.}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://resonix.tech/evidence/problems/brusselator}},
  note         = {Self-reported vendor benchmark; internally generated by Resonix Labs and not independently verified. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. Freeze 2026-08-13; libsolvsrk 2.3.0; SciPy 1.14.}
}

Related

TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · 398 problems · 14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels

Freeze: 2026-08-13 · scipy 1.14 · libsolvsrk 2.3.0 · Methodology

Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified · Verification status