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[assembler][pdesolver] Distinguish Resiudal and Solution types and set residual to dune native type

What this MR does / why does DuMux need it:

Various models in Dumux enable primary variable switching. This is realized by using special block types in the solution coefficient vector that specifies which variables are stored (state). These custom block types are not well supported by Dune and are also not needed in linear solver and assembler. With this MR we distinguish the SolutionVector type and the ResidualVector type. Solution vectors may contain Dumux-specific custom block types whereas the ResidualVector type is native to the linear algebra backend (at the moment only dune-istl).

This also fixes the strange behavior that if Jacobian/Residual are scalars the solver is still fed a vector of size 1. Now the solver receives a scalar as expected (see test_newton/test_timestepmethods).

This MR will simplify the implementation of the improved solver interfaces in !2113 (closed).

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Edited by Timo Koch

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