Flame propagation front

ADVANTAGES2 · dim 1

SolvSRK wins. At the comparison noise level, SolvSRK beats the best baseline by at least 10 percentage points of survival, or by at least 0.05 balanced score when survival is tied. Use SolvSRK for this class of problem. All verdicts →

A scalar combustion-front model whose stiffness spikes near criticality. Clean precision is a tie with implicit SciPy; the differentiation is noise survival.

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 _flame_rhs(t, y, delta=0.01):
    u = y[0]
    return np.array([u**2 * (1 - u) / delta])

def rhs(t, y):
    return _flame_rhs(t, y)
Parameters
  • delta = 0.01
Initial condition
y(0) = [0.01]
Horizon
t ∈ [0, 200]

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: high

Default noise: clean

Recommendation snapshot

Clean best: parity (implicit)

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: Flame propagation front (flame_propagation)

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 BDFSciPy
100%
16.071323 ms1.000
2SciPy LSODASciPy
100%
16.04051 ms1.000
3CVODE BDFexternal
100%
16.03448 ms1.000
4CVODE Adamsexternal
100%
16.03568 ms1.000
5SolvSRK
100%
16.020,28439 ms1.000
6SciPy RadauSciPy
100%
13.91,67632 ms0.949
7SciPy RK45SciPy
100%
8.842,554238 ms0.828
8Tsit5external
100%
8.343,8484.51 s0.817
9SciPy DOP853SciPy
100%
7.837,790188 ms0.806
10SciPy RK23SciPy
100%
7.825,601189 ms0.806

At Clean, best balanced arm is SciPy BDF · SolvSRK survival 100%, SCD 16.0.

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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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_flame_propagation_2026,
  title        = {Resonix Evidence Portal: Flame propagation front},
  author       = {{Resonix Labs (Canada) Inc.}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://resonix.tech/evidence/problems/flame_propagation}},
  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