51 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Omar SobhandClaude Fable 5 140310b223 rtx-fsi: the noise floor interrogated — smoothing refuted, IQN-ILS lands, tight coupling reopened
Performance Benchmarks / Run Benchmarks (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Format Check (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Clippy Check (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Build (macos-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Build (ubuntu-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Test (macos-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Test (ubuntu-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Build CPU-Only (Explicit) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Python Bindings (maturin) (macos-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Python Bindings (maturin) (ubuntu-latest) (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / WASM Build + Size Check (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / Distributed Training Tests (push) Canceled after 0s
CI / CI Success (push) Canceled after 0s
Documentation / Build API Documentation (push) Canceled after 0s
Documentation / Build User Guide (push) Canceled after 0s
The tenth session ended on "lower the interface noise floor". This
builds the levers and measures them, and the measurements overturn the
diagnosis:

- smooth_tractions: arclength moving average over the wetted surface,
  area-weighted, smooth normal-similarity factor so corners do not mix
  and the smoothed load stays continuous in the geometry. Nine unit
  tests. MEASURED NEGATIVE RESULT: the flip-scan floor is unchanged to
  0.2% at radii 1-3h — the flip's load jump is coherent through the
  fluid field (mask rebuild shifts the pressure around the flipped
  cell), and a surface average preserves coherent shifts. Default off;
  the probe pins the attribution so nobody re-reaches for this lever.

- IqnIls: interface quasi-Newton with inverse least squares (Degroote
  2009) — filtered MGS least squares over secant columns (filter
  RELATIVE to column norm), cross-step history reuse, per-step
  set_tolerance. Model-map tests: exact on anisotropic linear maps
  within dim+2 passes (scalar Aitken provably cannot be), scale
  invariant, history reuse shortens the next step, stalls at the noise
  scale instead of diverging (fixture lesson: per-pass noise, not
  state-dependent noise — the latter has a genuine fixed point).

- tests/fsi2_harness/: the FSI2 machinery extracted shared; verified
  pure code motion (committed release response reproduced to every
  printed digit). March gains RTX_FSI2_SMOOTH / RTX_FSI2_COUPLER=iqn /
  RTX_FSI2_REUSE knobs; pinned bands guard the default configuration.

- tests/fsi2_interface_noise.rs: the probe. Flip-scan floor at
  subcycle 8: 3.05e-5 (pinned); smoothing attribution pinned; the
  cross-subcycle scan recorded but unpinned (the fixed geometry
  increment's wall-velocity trend, increment/dt_c, swamps the flip
  signal at small dt_c — a dt_c^2 scaling hypothesis died in that
  operationalization). THE OPERATIONAL FLOOR — the real release step
  subiterated at tolerance 1e-9 with residuals traced — converges DEEP
  at both subcycles: s8 aitken 3.4e-9 / iqn 1.6e-9, s2 both ~6.4e-10
  in 5-6 passes. The flip jumps are events at specific geometries, not
  a floor under every step: the tenth session's subcycle-2 blowup was
  tolerance mis-budgeting (2e-4 held fixed while dt_c shrank), not an
  impassable floor. Probe bug found and fixed on the way: stale shared
  geometry leaked a 4.5e-5 phantom first residual into the first stall
  run; every measurement now resets the geometry on entry.

All 924+17 tests green: lib 44 (was 27), piston 2, curved edge 1,
FSI1, the committed FSI2 march (release response identical), the probe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lnyrw33Lu6rUhW42E9KHwq
2026-08-21 06:42:05 -07:00