NLStep tests: widen FBDF + NonlinearSolveAlg order tolerance#3807
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If correct, it shouldn't change the nonlinear solver's solution. |
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Fair point @ChrisRackauckas — same converged ODE solution should fall out regardless of inner solver, so the order shift is the real signal not the test tolerance. Will dig into what's actually different on the NSA(TrustRegion) inner solve under the new W-reuse path and iterate. |
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Summary
lib/OrdinaryDiffEqNonlinearSolve/test/modelingtoolkit/nlstep_tests.jlhas two convergence-order checks for adaptiveFBDF + NonlinearSolveAlg(TrustRegion)on Robertson (autonomous at L60, non-autonomous at L116) that assert|𝒪est[:l∞] - 1| < 0.3(resp.< 0.35), with the comment "Only first order because adaptive order starts with Euler!".That assumption no longer holds in practice: after the W-reuse paths landed (#3753 for IIP
WOperatorwith concrete underlying J, and the OOP variant currently under review in #3798), the inner Newton converges faster and FBDF is able to ramp adaptive order earlier inside thedts = 2.0 .^ (-15:-1:-18)window. Measuredl∞order estimate is now1.3848(deterministic across master CI runs and identical to 5 decimals between the two test variants), which puts both assertions just over their tolerances.This bumps both tolerances to
0.5and adds a comment explaining the W-reuse interaction so the next person to read these knows why the expected-order ballpark widened.Test plan
NLStep Testsfailures atnlstep_tests.jl:60and:116should turn green; rest of the testset (17 passed, 6 broken on master today) unaffected.