engine: heated-bracket sample, steady heat and thermal stress in steel

file.sample heated-bracket: the corpus filleted bracket in steel, tet10, its
hole bores clamped, the upright's end held at 120 C and the rest cooled by
still air; one coupled temperature-displacement step. Its test checks the
temperatures against the heater and the air, then warms the bracket evenly,
clamps one hole, and matches the free thermal expansion alpha dT times the
distance from the hole along x.

Closes #165

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## Heated bracket (`heated-bracket`)
![The steel bracket's temperature, 120 °C at the heated end of the upright falling to 95 °C at the foot](media/examples/heated-bracket.png)
The corpus filleted bracket (`tests/corpus/filleted-bracket`: an 8 mm L-bracket, R6 fillet, a
hole through each leg) in steel, both hole bores clamped. The end of the upright is held at
120 °C by a heater; the rest of its outside loses heat to still air at 20 °C
(h = 10 W/(m² K)); steel conducts with k = 50 W/(m K), expands with α = 12 × 10⁻⁶/K and is
stress free at 20 °C. One coupled temperature–displacement step (steady) on 23 641 tet10
elements: about 8 s to open (meshing) and 13 s to solve.
**Look at:** Contours ▸ Temperature: the upright stays within a few degrees of the heater and
the foot falls to 95 °C, a steady balance between conduction and the air. Contours ▸ Von Mises
shows the stress of the growth the clamps hold back: tens of MPa through the legs, peaking at the
edges of the clamped bores, where a rigid clamp is a stress singularity (about 1 GPa there, a
figure that grows as the mesh is refined: read the stress a little away from the bore).
**Check:** the temperatures lie between the air's and the heater's and fall away from the heater.
For the expansion, the test puts the air at the heater's temperature, so the bracket warms
evenly by ΔT = 100 K, and clamps the foot's hole alone: the bracket then grows freely about it,
and a point moves α ΔT times its distance from the hole's axis. The upright's top moves −0.0432
mm along x (within 2 %); the foot's end, 16 mm from the clamped bore, which cannot grow, moves
0.0228 mm against 0.024 mm (within 6 %).