[bellonarts]

Proposed Changes

Interrupt-driven termination is not limited to a user's Ctrl-C. SIGTERM is the normal way batch schedulers terminate a job at its wall-clock limit: SLURM sends SIGTERM when a job reaches its TimeLimit and on scancel (waiting KillWait before SIGKILL), and PBS/Torque and LSF behave equivalently. Today every SU2 job that exhausts its allocation on a cluster ends with a log stating "All convergence criteria satisfied." directly above a Solver Exit table whose every criterion reads "No". Any parameter sweep or optimization loop that classifies runs by scraping that banner silently admits timed-out, unconverged runs as converged, and a human skimming the log is misled the same way. That population is far larger than the manual-interrupt case.

Mechanism: on SIGTERM the signal handler sets STOP, and COutput::ConvergenceMonitoring forces convergence = true so the run stops and saves. Both CSinglezoneDriver::Monitor and CMultizoneDriver::Monitor then read that flag as InnerConvergence and print the satisfied banner.

Fix: a new convergenceInterrupted member of COutput records that the stop came from the interrupt path rather than from the criteria. It is propagated across ranks in the existing convergence Allreduce as a count-2 element-wise MPI_MAX (SU2's serial MPI stub does not define MPI_BOR, and the AD layer maps only SUM/MIN/MAX/PROD), exposed through GetConvergenceInterrupted(), and both drivers print

Interrupt signal received, exiting before the convergence criteria were satisfied.

on that path. Stop-and-save behavior, exit code 0, and the genuine-convergence and maximum-iteration messages are unchanged.

Files: SU2_CFD/include/output/COutput.hpp, SU2_CFD/src/output/COutput.cpp, SU2_CFD/src/drivers/CSinglezoneDriver.cpp, SU2_CFD/src/drivers/CMultizoneDriver.cpp (+29/-8).

Verification (QuickStart inv_NACA0012.cfg, serial release build of develop 07aa46b1):

• SIGTERM sent to the exact SU2_CFD process about 8 s into the run: the new interrupt message is printed, the satisfied banner does not appear, restart and solution files are written, exit code 0.
• Run to genuine convergence and run to maximum iterations: output byte-identical to the unpatched build (checked when the change was first made on develop 81ce6a68f9).
• Touched files re-checked with -Wall -Wextra: no new warnings.

Related Work

The defect is present at v8.5.0 and at the current develop tip. I found no existing upstream issue or PR that addresses it. The change is independent of the other NEMO-related PRs from the same qualification campaign; it touches only the output and driver exit path.

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[pcarruscag]

Revert the changes after I approved please.
If the pull request is not ready for review mark it as draft.

[bellonarts]

You’re right. I accidentally kept working on the branch after you approved it because I was trying to add regression coverage. That test created a CodeFactor warning, so I pushed another change to address it. I have now removed both changes and restored the branch exactly to 07801f0, the commit you approved. The PR is ready for review again. Sorry about that, and thank you for flagging it.