Re: How to integrate a function over a polygon
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- Subject: [mg123205] Re: How to integrate a function over a polygon
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:08:47 -0500 (EST)
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Well, perhaps you mean this. Let the function be:
f[x_, y_, z_] := x^2 + y^2 + z^2
We want to integrate it over the simplex: x+y+z==1, 0<=x<=1,0<=y<=1,0<=y<=1
On the simplex the function can be expressed in terms of only x and y as follows:
g[x_, y_] =
Expand[Last[PolynomialReduce[f[x, y, z], {x + y + z - 1}, {z, x, z}]]]
2*x^2 + 2*x*y - 2*x + 2*y^2 - 2*y + 1
In terms of x and y the simplex can be described as:
cond[x_, y_] := x + y <= 1 && 0 <= x <= 1 && 0 <= y <= 1
So now we simply compute:
Integrate[Boole[cond[x, y]]*g[x, y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}]
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Andrzej Kozlowski
On 25 Nov 2011, at 10:57, Mikael wrote:
> Well, as I wrote in my OP, it is a 2-diemnsional unit simplex so you can always re-parametrize the function to have 2 arguments.
>
> In any case, your answer is not useful unless you had also answered the original question apart from your remark.
>
>> First of all, f would need three arguments.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:07:00 -0600, Mikael
>> <mikaen.anderson.1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The subject line asks the general question but to
>> be more specific
>>> suppose I have a 2-dimentional unit simplex defined
>> as
>>>
>>> Polygon[{{1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 1}}].
>>>
>>> I winder how I can integrate a function f(x,y) over
>> this simplex. Thanks.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
>>
>
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- From: Mikael <mikaen.anderson.1969@gmail.com>
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