Fix bugs in SmoothVLE2 initialization #11985

Job	Run time
(util) Check if should run	5s
Run examples (py3.9/linux)	17m 0s
pytest (py3.9/linux/integration)	23m 57s
Run examples (py3.9/win64)	3m 22s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-default/linux)	27m 59s
pytest (py3.9/win64/integration)	45m 9s
Run examples (py3.10/linux)	15m 50s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-complete/linux)	28m 14s
pytest (py3.10/linux/integration)	20m 36s
Run examples (py3.10/win64)	32m 23s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-all/linux)	30m 24s
pytest (py3.10/win64/integration)	44m 2s
Run examples (py3.11/linux)	15m 15s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (conda-like/linux)	27m 25s
pytest (py3.11/linux/integration)	19m 6s
Run examples (py3.11/win64)	25m 38s
pytest (py3.11/win64/integration)	33m 28s
Run examples (py3.12/linux)	15m 11s
pytest (py3.12/linux/integration)	19m 4s
Run examples (py3.12/win64)	27m 54s
pytest (py3.12/win64/integration)	36m 52s
	8h 28m 54s

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