Polynomial Ea coverage dependency

[jongyoonbae]

Changes proposed in this pull request

• This PR will enable polynomial coverage dependency on activation energy for InterfaceRate on top of the current linear coverage dependency.
• The current methods for linear coverage dependency remain unchanged when a surface reaction's E in coverage-dependencies is given as a scalar value.
• When E is given as a list of four values, the 4th-order polynomial dependency is applied.
• Accordingly, source code changes are made in InterfaceRate.cpp and InterfaceRate.h as well as additional documentations in InterfaceRate.h and reactions.rst are appended.
• Lastly, an additional test routine is added to kineticsFromYaml.cpp with additional dummy coverage dependency parameters in surface-phases.yaml.

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Codecov Report

Merging #1495 (6146cee) into main (952e465) will increase coverage by 0.00%.
The diff coverage is 73.17%.

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  Coverage   70.25%   70.25%           
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  Files         375      375           
  Lines       58266    58292   +26     
  Branches    20807    20828   +21     
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+ Hits        40935    40955   +20     
- Misses      14348    14351    +3     
- Partials     2983     2986    +3     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
src/kinetics/InterfaceRate.cpp	84.30% <68.57%> (-2.39%)	⬇️
include/cantera/kinetics/InterfaceRate.h	87.87% <100.00%> (ø)

... and 2 files with indirect coverage changes

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[speth]

Thanks for this contribution, @jongyoonbae. I think it generally looks good, and I just had a couple of minor comments on the implementation.

[speth]

Thanks for the updates, @jongyoonbae. I found just one spot where I think an update is needed.

[speth]

Thanks, @jongyoonbae! This looks good to me.