TRIANGLE_EXACTNESS
Exactness of Quadrature on Triangles

TRIANGLE_EXACTNESS is a C program which investigates the polynomial exactness of a quadrature rule over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

The polynomial exactness of a quadrature rule is defined as the highest total degree D such that the quadrature rule is guaranteed to integrate exactly all polynomials of total degree DEGREE_MAX or less, ignoring roundoff. The total degree of a polynomial is the maximum of the degrees of all its monomial terms. For a triangle, the degree of a monomial term is the sum of the exponents of x and y. Thus, for instance, the DEGREE of

x²y⁵

To be thorough, the program starts at DEGREE = 0, and then proceeds to DEGREE = 1, 2, and so on up to a maximum degree DEGREE_MAX specified by the user. At each value of DEGREE, the program generates every possible monomial term, applies the quadrature rule to it, and determines the quadrature error. The program uses a scaling factor on each monomial so that the exact integral should always be 1; therefore, each reported error can be compared on a fixed scale.

The program is very flexible and interactive. The quadrature rule is defined by three files, to be read at input, and the maximum degree is specified by the user as well.

Note that the three files that define the quadrature rule are assumed to have related names, of the form

• prefix_x.txt
• prefix_w.txt
• prefix_r.txt

The exactness results are written to an output file with the corresponding name:

• prefix_exact.txt

Usage:

triangle_exactness prefix degree_max

• prefix is the common prefix for the files containing the abscissa, weight and region information of the quadrature rule;
• degree_max is the maximum total monomial degree to check. A value of 5 or 10 might be reasonable, but a value of 50 or 100 is probably never a good input!

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TRIANGLE_EXACTNESS is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

CUBE_EXACTNESS, a C library which investigates the polynomial exactness of quadrature rules over the interior of a cube in 3D.

HYPERCUBE_EXACTNESS, a C program which tests the exactness of integration rules over the interior of the hypercube in M dimensions.

PYRAMID_EXACTNESS, a C program which investigates the polynomial exactness of a quadrature rule over the interior of the pyramid in 3D.

SPHERE_EXACTNESS, a C program which tests the monomial exactness of a quadrature rule on the surface of the unit sphere in 3D.

SQUARE_EXACTNESS, a C library which investigates the polynomial exactness of quadrature rules for f(x,y) over the interior of a rectangle in 2D.

TETRAHEDRON_EXACTNESS, a C program which investigates the polynomial exactness of a quadrature rule over the interior of the tetrahedron in 3D.

TRIANGLE_DUNAVANT_RULE, a C library which sets up a Dunavant quadrature rule over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

TRIANGLE_FEKETE_RULE, a C library which defines Fekete rules for interpolation or quadrature over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

TRIANGLE_FELIPPA_RULE, a C library which returns Felippa's quadratures rules for approximating integrals over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

TRIANGLE_LYNESS_RULE, a C library which returns Lyness-Jespersen quadrature rules over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

TRIANGLE_MONTE_CARLO, a C program which uses the Monte Carlo method to estimate integrals over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

TRIANGLE_SYMQ_RULE, a C library which returns efficient symmetric quadrature rules, with exactness up to total degree 50, over the interior of an arbitrary triangle in 2D, by Hong Xiao and Zydrunas Gimbutas.

TRIANGLE_WANDZURA_RULE, a C library which sets up a quadrature rule of exactness 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 over the interior of a triangle in 2D.

WEDGE_EXACTNESS, a C program which investigates the monomial exactness of a quadrature rule over the interior of the unit wedge in 3D.

Reference:

1. Philip Davis, Philip Rabinowitz,
   Methods of Numerical Integration,
   Second Edition,
   Dover, 2007,
   ISBN: 0486453391,
   LC: QA299.3.D28.

Source Code:

• triangle_exactness.c, the source code.

Examples and Tests:

STRANG5 is Strang's fifth rule for triangles.

• strang5_r.txt, the region file.
• strang5_w.txt, the weight file.
• strang5_x.txt, the point file.
• strang5_output.txt output from "triangle_exactness strang5 5".

List of Routines:

• MAIN is the main program for TRIANGLE_EXACTNESS.
• CH_CAP capitalizes a single character.
• CH_EQI is true if two characters are equal, disregarding case.
• CH_TO_DIGIT returns the integer value of a base 10 digit.
• COMP_NEXT computes the compositions of the integer N into K parts.
• FILE_COLUMN_COUNT counts the columns in the first line of a file.
• FILE_ROW_COUNT counts the number of row records in a file.
• MONOMIAL_VALUE evaluates a monomial.
• R8MAT_DATA_READ reads the data from an R8MAT file.
• R8MAT_HEADER_READ reads the header from an R8MAT file.
• R8VEC_DOT_PRODUCT computes the dot product of a pair of R8VEC's.
• S_LEN_TRIM returns the length of a string to the last nonblank.
• S_TO_I4 reads an I4 from a string.
• S_TO_R8 reads an R8 from a string.
• S_TO_R8VEC reads an R8VEC from a string.
• S_WORD_COUNT counts the number of "words" in a string.
• TIMESTAMP prints the current YMDHMS date as a time stamp.
• TRIANGLE_AREA computes the area of a triangle.
• TRIANGLE_ORDER3_PHYSICAL_TO_REFERENCE maps physical points to reference points.
• TRIANGLE01_MONOMIAL_INTEGRAL integrates a monomial over the unit triangle.
• TRANGLE01_MONOMIAL_QUADRATURE applies quadrature to a monomial in a triangle.

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