Enable loading of serial meshes

Registered by Johan Jansson

For some purposes in DOLFIN-HPC it can be useful to load in a mesh in serial, for example if the mesh represents a geometry (as a simple replacement for a NURBS description for example).

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Sprints

Whiteboard

Jan Blechta: after some discussion with Garth it seems that dummy communicator solution like in lp:~blechta/dolfin/serial-meshes is good one but it would be better if custom communicator stored in Mesh would be used instead of hacked MPI::MPICommunicator(). It would be subsequntly used by all other objects derived from mesh.

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