engine: flow-past sample, air past an L-bracket on the floor

file.sample flow-past: air at 25 mm/s past the upright L-bracket in a box of
2.5 mm lattice cells (Re 83), inlet, outlet, a no-slip floor and slip walls;
the fluid step reports the force on each named face. Its test holds the
drag coefficient on the upright's frontal area between 1 and 3.5 (2.3) and
the lattice's mass change under 1 %. No picture: the viewport does not draw
flow results yet (M12).

Part of #164 (its streamlines wait for a flow display in the viewport)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
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the bulge makes it stiffer (shape factor 0.5): 6 518 N, held between 1.05 and 2.5 times the
frictionless force. The groove and the plates are prescribed displacements today; with implicit
contact (#161) the ring will be pressed by contact against a groove.
## Flow past a bracket (`flow-past`)
Air (ρ = 1.2 kg/m³, μ = 1.8 × 10⁻⁵ Pa s) at 25 mm/s past the same L-bracket standing on the
floor, the upright's back to the wind. A 240 × 120 × 100 mm box of 2.5 mm cells (184 320),
uniform inlet, outlet at zero pressure, a no-slip floor and slip walls at the sides and top;
D3Q19 lattice Boltzmann (TRT) for 16 s, about 6.7 flow-throughs, ten frames. Reynolds number
83 on the upright's 50 mm height: laminar, a steady wake. About 10 s.
**Look at:** the step's report (`solve.fluid`, or Results after Solve): the force on every
named face of the bracket and on each side of the box, final and time-averaged, and the mass
history; `solve.probe` with `points` gives the velocity and pressure in any cell, and with
`forces` each face's force history.
**Check:** the drag on the bracket, as a coefficient on the upright's frontal area
(40 × 50 mm), is 2.3 — a bluff plate standing on a wall at low Reynolds number in a box it
blocks by 17 %, held between 1 and 3.5 (a flat plate broadside to the flow is about 1.2 at high
Reynolds number and rises as it falls); the lattice's mass changes by less than 1 %.
There is no picture yet: the viewport does not draw flow results (velocity slices and
streamlines are planned in M12), so this example is numbers only for now.