About the Authors

Maria-Veronica Ciocanel

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, John T. Nardini

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

veronica.ciocanel@duke.edu (M-VC); nardinij@tcnj.edu (JTN); kbflores@ncsu.edu (KBF)

Affiliation Departments of Mathematics and Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolin, United States of America

John T. Nardini

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, John T. Nardini

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

veronica.ciocanel@duke.edu (M-VC); nardinij@tcnj.edu (JTN); kbflores@ncsu.edu (KBF)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, United States of America

Kevin B. Flores

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

veronica.ciocanel@duke.edu (M-VC); nardinij@tcnj.edu (JTN); kbflores@ncsu.edu (KBF)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Erica M. Rutter

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Suzanne S. Sindi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Alexandria Volkening

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.