Marco's paper edits

[marcomangano]

Purpose

Some minor edits, comments, and rephrasing to cut words. The latter are mostly suggestions, lmk if you want me to further change sentences - or go ahead and revert/edit as you like!

Expected time until merged

Type of change

• [ ] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [ ] Breaking change (non-backwards-compatible fix or feature)
• [ ] Code style update (formatting, renaming)
• [ ] Refactoring (no functional changes, no API changes)
• [ ] Documentation update
• [ ] Maintenance update
• [ ] Other (please describe)

Testing

Checklist

• [ ] I have run flake8 and black to make sure the Python code adheres to PEP-8 and is consistently formatted
• [ ] I have formatted the Fortran code with fprettify or C/C++ code with clang-format as applicable
• [ ] I have run unit and regression tests which pass locally with my changes
• [ ] I have added new tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• [ ] I have added necessary documentation

[ewu63]

Please resolve the merge conflicts @marcomangano. Then @hajdik or I can take a look

[hajdik]

@nwu63 I will handle the merge conflicts since they happened after @marcomangano opened this