[PRE REVIEW]: ngsxfem: Add-on to NGSolve for geometrically unfitted finite element discretizations

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Submitting author: @schruste (Christoph Lehrenfeld) Repository: https://github.com/ngsxfem/ngsxfem Version: v2.0 Editor: @meg-simula Reviewers: @mscroggs, @mikaem, @mikaem Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Software report (experimental):

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Statistical information for the repository 'b4303fae6e6e369ecc1ee0e8' was
gathered on 2021/03/14.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Christoph Lehrenfeld           974         53534          58645           60.14
Christoph Winterstei             2           339             24            0.19
Christopher Lackner              2             7              7            0.01
Fabian Heimann                 466         14595           6387           11.25
Henry Maximilian von            64          2461           1586            2.17
Henry v. Wahl                   97          3712           1354            2.72
Henry von Wahl                   4           153              1            0.08
Janosch Preuß                  100          6502           2186            4.66
Matthias Hochsteger              6           193            157            0.19
Philip Lederer                   5           636             13            0.35
Thomas Ludescher                17          3637            341            2.13
Tobias Jawecki                   1             3              3            0.00
Yimin Lou                        6           209             13            0.12
henryvonwahl                     2           333              0            0.18
hvonwah                          1             6              4            0.01
lehrenfeld                       1            93             32            0.07
mw                               2            77              1            0.04
root                             1           316             79            0.21
schruste@pummelzacke           190         22159           6078           15.14
tobias                           7           634             20            0.35
yimin.lou                        1             1              1            0.00

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intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Christoph Lehrenfeld      14000           26.2         37.5                7.59
Christopher Lackner           6           85.7         38.1                0.00
Fabian Heimann             4211           28.9         27.0                9.45
Henry Maximilian von       2960          120.3          7.0               14.86
Matthias Hochsteger          23           11.9         29.0               39.13
Thomas Ludescher            872           24.0         24.7               16.51
henryvonwahl                270           81.1         15.6                5.93
janosch.preuss              623          100.0         45.9               11.08
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1063/5.0037971 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.3989604 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.3647571 is OK
- 10.1051/m2an/2020044 is OK
- 10.1016/j.camwa.2019.08.003 is OK
- 10.1002/pamm.201610003 is OK
- 10.1016/j.cma.2015.12.005 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-319-71431-8_3 is OK
- 10.1093/imanum/drx041 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-319-96415-7_16 is OK
- 10.1051/m2an/2018068 is OK
- 10.1515/jnma-2017-0109 is OK
- 10.18154/RWTH-2020-07305 is OK
- 10.1137/16m1102203 is OK
- 10.1007/s00211-016-0801-6 is OK
- 10.11588/ans.2015.100.20553 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-642-28589-9_7 is OK
- 10.11588/ans.2016.100.26526 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1093/imanum/drz062 may be a valid DOI for title: Trace Finite Element Methods for Surface Vector-Laplace Equations
- 10.7712/100016.1820.4573 may be a valid DOI for title: Removing the stabilization parameter in fitted and unfitted symmetric Nitsche formulations

INVALID DOIs

- None

[arfon]

@whedon invite @meg-simula as editor

:wave: @meg-simula - are you able to take on an additional paper at this time?

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@meg-simula has been invited to edit this submission.

[schruste]

As for the potential reviewers: Perfect matches, but both not on the list, would be santiagobadia and chr-engwer. From the list the following persons seem to qualify as potential reviewers as well (in that order):

• jaroslavhron,
• mscroggs,
• mikaem,
• capitalaslash

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@meg-simula can you help edit this submission? It is okay if you need more time before you can commit to editing this, we can set the submission to waitlisted until you are available.

[kthyng]

Hi @schruste and thanks for your submission! Our relevant editors for your submission are booked up already so I am adding you to our waitlist. You'll be taken on as availability opens up. Sorry for the wait and thanks for your patience.

[meg-simula]

Yes, I can take this on now.

[meg-simula]

@whedon assign meg-simula as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @meg-simula

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[meg-simula]

@schruste Thanks for the submission and your patience so far. This looks ready for review. I'm reaching out to reviewers and will get back to you shortly.

[meg-simula]

@whedon assign @mscroggs as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @mscroggs is now a reviewer

[meg-simula]

@whedon add @mikaem as reviewer

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OK, @mikaem is now a reviewer

[meg-simula]

@whedon add @mikaem as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @mikaem is now a reviewer

[meg-simula]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3237.