Fix reinstantiation of spectral broadcasted

src/Operators/spectralelement.jl

@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ function Base.Broadcast.instantiate(sbc::SpectralBroadcasted)
             Base.Broadcast.check_broadcast_axes(axes, args...)
         end
     end
-    op = typeof(op)(axes)
+    # If we've already instantiated, then we need to strip the type parameters,
+    # for example, `Divergence{()}(axes)`.
+    op = unionall_type(typeof(op)){()}(axes)
     Style = AbstractSpectralStyle(ClimaComms.device(axes))
     return SpectralBroadcasted{Style}(op, args, axes)
 end
@@ -1323,6 +1325,7 @@ struct Interpolate{I, S} <: TensorOperator
     space::S
 end
 Interpolate(space) = Interpolate{operator_axes(space), typeof(space)}(space)
+Interpolate{()}(space) = Interpolate{operator_axes(space), typeof(space)}(space)
 
 function apply_operator(op::Interpolate{(1,)}, space_out, slabidx, arg)
     FT = Spaces.undertype(space_out)
@@ -1412,6 +1415,7 @@ struct Restrict{I, S} <: TensorOperator
     space::S
 end
 Restrict(space) = Restrict{operator_axes(space), typeof(space)}(space)
+Restrict{()}(space) = Restrict{operator_axes(space), typeof(space)}(space)
 
 function apply_operator(op::Restrict{(1,)}, space_out, slabidx, arg)
     FT = Spaces.undertype(space_out)

test/Operators/unit_reinstantiate_bc.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#=
+julia --project=.buildkite
+using Revise; include("test/Operators/unit_reinstantiate_bc.jl")
+=#
+
+# TODO: make this unit test more low-level
+using ClimaComms
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+using ClimaCore.CommonSpaces
+using ClimaCore: Spaces, Fields, Geometry, ClimaCore, Operators
+using LazyBroadcast: lazy
+using Test
+using Base.Broadcast: materialize
+
+const divₕ = Operators.Divergence()
+const wgradₕ = Operators.WeakGradient()
+const curlₕ = Operators.Curl()
+const wcurlₕ = Operators.WeakCurl()
+
+using ClimaCore.CommonSpaces
+
+function foo_tendency_uₕ(ᶜuₕ, zmax)
+    return lazy.(
+        @. (
+            wgradₕ(divₕ(ᶜuₕ)) - Geometry.project(
+                Geometry.Covariant12Axis(),
+                wcurlₕ(Geometry.project(Geometry.Covariant3Axis(), curlₕ(ᶜuₕ))),
+            )
+        )
+    )
+end
+
+@testset "Reinstantiation of SpectralBroadcasted" begin
+    FT = Float64
+    ᶜspace = ExtrudedCubedSphereSpace(
+        FT;
+        z_elem = 10,
+        z_min = 0,
+        z_max = 1,
+        radius = 10,
+        h_elem = 10,
+        n_quad_points = 4,
+        staggering = CellCenter(),
+    )
+    ᶠspace = Spaces.face_space(ᶜspace)
+    ᶠz = Fields.coordinate_field(ᶠspace).z
+    ᶜz = Fields.coordinate_field(ᶜspace).z
+    ᶜuₕ = map(z -> zero(Geometry.Covariant12Vector{eltype(z)}), ᶜz)
+    zmax = Spaces.z_max(axes(ᶠz))
+    vst_uₕ = foo_tendency_uₕ(ᶜuₕ, zmax)
+    ᶜuₕₜ = zero(ᶜuₕ)
+    @. ᶜuₕₜ += vst_uₕ
+end

test/runtests.jl

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ UnitTest("Spaces - DSS cubed sphere"               ,"Spaces/ddss1_cs.jl"),
 UnitTest("Sphere spaces"                           ,"Spaces/sphere.jl"),
 # UnitTest("Terrain warp"                            ,"Spaces/terrain_warp.jl"), # appears to hang on GHA
 UnitTest("Fields"                                  ,"Fields/unit_field.jl"), # has benchmarks
+UnitTest("Reinstantiate broadcasted"               ,"test/Operators/unit_reinstantiate_bc.jl"),
 UnitTest("Spectral elem - rectilinear"             ,"Operators/spectralelement/rectilinear.jl"),
 UnitTest("Spectral elem - opt"                     ,"Operators/spectralelement/opt.jl"),
 UnitTest("Spectral elem - gradient tensor"         ,"Operators/spectralelement/covar_deriv_ops.jl"),