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Christian Svensson 939b64e660 lbm: a temperature lattice on the flow
A D3Q7 passive scalar rides on the D3Q19 flow: it is advected by the
cell velocity, diffuses with the fluid's thermal diffusivity (the
relaxation time follows from k / (rho c)), and feeds back into the
momentum through a per-cell Boussinesq force when the domain has an
expansion coefficient and gravity. Walls and obstacle faces hold a
temperature (anti-bounce-back), a heat flux (added to the bounced
population) or are adiabatic (bounce-back); velocity inlets carry the
held temperature in, pressure outlets copy their neighbour.

The heat crossing each face group is accumulated during streaming and
reported in physical units (W) in the result's heat histories, next to
the force histories; frames gain a temperature field and the stats
report the thermal relaxation time.

Closed-form checks: linear conduction between held plates, a flux wall
against q H / k with the wall's heat balance, an inlet temperature
carried through a plug flow, and a periodic blob that conserves its
total and returns after one lap. The de Vahl Davis cavity (Ra 1e3 and
1e4 against the published Nusselt numbers) is there as an ignored test
because it takes minutes.

The GPU backend declines domains with heat for now and asks for the
CPU; its kernels follow.

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