Thermal poromechanics with stabilizationType="Global" does not propagate temperature (pressure-only stabilized flux)
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Description
Describe the bug
In thermal single-phase poromechanics, when stabilizationType="Global" is enabled in SinglePhasePoromechanics, pressure propagates but temperature does not propagate correctly.
The stabilized flux path uses a pressure-only kernel (NUM_EQN = 1, NUM_DOF = 1) and does not assemble thermal/energy flux terms.
Relevant code locations:
src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/fluidFlow/SinglePhaseFVM.cppSinglePhaseFVM< SinglePhaseBase >::assembleStabilizedFluxTerms(...)- Contains comment:
// No thermal support yet
src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/fluidFlow/kernels/singlePhase/StabilizedFluxComputeKernel.hppNUM_EQN = 1,NUM_DOF = 1
Expected behavior
With isThermal="1", both pressure and temperature should propagate consistently in the coupled poromechanics case, including when stabilization is enabled.
Platform (please complete the following information):
- Machine [e.g. LLNL/Quartz]
- Local Linux workstation
- GEOS Version [e.g. 0.2]
developbranch, commitbd9ff57015
Additional context
- The same thermal box forcing setup works in the no-stress flow-only case.
- Coupled run logs show thermal equation residual (
Renergy) is present, but stabilized flux assembly path appears pressure-only. - This suggests missing thermal support in stabilized single-phase flux assembly rather than an input field-spec issue.
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Research direction
Start in src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/fluidFlow/SinglePhaseFVM.cpp at assembleStabilizedFluxTerms(...) and inspect the pressure-only path and its “No thermal support yet” comment. Then read kernels/singlePhase/StabilizedFluxComputeKernel.hpp, including its NUM_EQN and NUM_DOF settings. Done means thermal single-phase poromechanics with stabilizationType="Global" propagates both pressure and temperature consistently when isThermal="1".
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