nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) is an adaptive integrator, especially suited to oscillating, nonsingular integrands, which calculates an approximation to the integral of a function

f (x)

over a finite interval

[a, b]

I = \int_{a}^{b} f (x) d x .

Syntax

[result, abserr, w, iw, ifail] = d01ak(f, a, b, epsabs, epsrel, 'lw', lw, 'liw', liw)

[result, abserr, w, iw, ifail] = nag_quad_1d_fin_osc(f, a, b, epsabs, epsrel, 'lw', lw, 'liw', liw)

Description

nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) is based on the QUADPACK routine QAG (see Piessens et al. (1983)). It is an adaptive function, using the Gauss

30

-point and Kronrod

61

-point rules. A ‘global’ acceptance criterion (as defined by Malcolm and Simpson (1976)) is used. The local error estimation is described in Piessens et al. (1983).

Because nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) is based on integration rules of high order, it is especially suitable for nonsingular oscillating integrands.

nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) requires you to supply a function to evaluate the integrand at a single point.

The function nag_quad_1d_fin_osc_vec (d01au) uses an identical algorithm but requires you to supply a function to evaluate the integrand at an array of points. Therefore nag_quad_1d_fin_osc_vec (d01au) will be more efficient if the evaluation can be performed in vector mode on a vector-processing machine.

References

Malcolm M A and Simpson R B (1976) Local versus global strategies for adaptive quadrature ACM Trans. Math. Software 1 129–146

Piessens R (1973) An algorithm for automatic integration Angew. Inf. 15 399–401

Piessens R, de Doncker–Kapenga E, Überhuber C and Kahaner D (1983) QUADPACK, A Subroutine Package for Automatic Integration Springer–Verlag

Parameters

Compulsory Input Parameters

1: $f$ – function handle or string containing name of m-file

f must return the value of the integrand

f

at a given point.

[result] = f(x)

Input Parameters

1: $x$ – double scalar: The point at which the integrand $f$ must be evaluated.

Output Parameters

1: $result$ – double scalar: The value of the integrand at x

2: $a$ – double scalar

a

, the lower limit of integration.

3: $b$ – double scalar

b

, the upper limit of integration. It is not necessary that

a < b

4: $epsabs$ – double scalar

The absolute accuracy required. If epsabs is negative, the absolute value is used. See Accuracy.

5: $epsrel$ – double scalar

The relative accuracy required. If epsrel is negative, the absolute value is used. See Accuracy.

Optional Input Parameters

1: $lw$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: Suggested value: $lw = 800$ to $2000$ is adequate for most problems.
Default: $800$
The dimension of the array w. the value of lw (together with that of liw) imposes a bound on the number of sub-intervals into which the interval of integration may be divided by the function. The number of sub-intervals cannot exceed $lw / 4$ . The more difficult the integrand, the larger lw should be.

Constraint: $lw \geq 4$ .
2: $liw$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: Default: $lw / 4$
The dimension of the array iw. the number of sub-intervals into which the interval of integration may be divided cannot exceed liw.

Constraint: $liw \geq 1$ .

Output Parameters

1: $result$ – double scalar: The approximation to the integral $I$ .
2: $abserr$ – double scalar: An estimate of the modulus of the absolute error, which should be an upper bound for $|I - result|$ .
3: $w (lw)$ – double array: Details of the computation see Further Comments for more information.
4: $iw (liw)$ – int64int32nag_int array: $iw (1)$ contains the actual number of sub-intervals used. The rest of the array is used as workspace.
5: $ifail$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: $ifail = 0$ unless the function detects an error (see Error Indicators and Warnings).

Error Indicators and Warnings

Errors or warnings detected by the function:

Cases prefixed with W are classified as warnings and do not generate an error of type NAG:error_n. See nag_issue_warnings.

W $ifail = 1$: The maximum number of subdivisions allowed with the given workspace has been reached without the accuracy requirements being achieved. Look at the integrand in order to determine the integration difficulties. If necessary, another integrator, which is designed for handling the type of difficulty involved, must be used. Alternatively, consider relaxing the accuracy requirements specified by epsabs and epsrel, or increasing the amount of workspace.

W $ifail = 2$: Round-off error prevents the requested tolerance from being achieved. Consider requesting less accuracy.

W $ifail = 3$: Extremely bad local integrand behaviour causes a very strong subdivision around one (or more) points of the interval. The same advice applies as in the case of $ifail = 1$ .

$ifail = 4$

On entry,	$lw < 4$ ,
or	$liw < 1$ .

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.

Accuracy

nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) cannot guarantee, but in practice usually achieves, the following accuracy:

|I - result| \leq tol,

where

tol = \max \{|epsabs|, |epsrel| \times |I|\},

and epsabs and epsrel are user-specified absolute and relative error tolerances. Moreover, it returns the quantity abserr which, in normal circumstances, satisfies

|I - result| \leq abserr \leq tol .

Further Comments

The time taken by nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) depends on the integrand and the accuracy required.

ifail \neq 0

on exit, then you may wish to examine the contents of the array w, which contains the end points of the sub-intervals used by nag_quad_1d_fin_osc (d01ak) along with the integral contributions and error estimates over these sub-intervals.

Specifically, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

, let

r_{i}

denote the approximation to the value of the integral over the sub-interval

[a_{i}, b_{i}]

in the partition of

[a, b]

and

e_{i}

be the corresponding absolute error estimate. Then,

\int_{a_{i}}^{b_{i}} f (x) d x ≃ r_{i}

and

result = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} r_{i}

. The value of

n

is returned in

iw (1)

, and the values

a_{i}

b_{i}

e_{i}

and

r_{i}

are stored consecutively in the array w, that is:

$a_{i} = w (i)$ ,
$b_{i} = w (n + i)$ ,
$e_{i} = w (2 n + i)$ and
$r_{i} = w (3 n + i)$ .

Example

This example computes

\int_{0}^{2 π} x \sin (30 x) \cos x d x .

Open in the MATLAB editor: d01ak_example

function d01ak_example


fprintf('d01ak example results\n\n');

a = 0;
b = 2*pi;
epsabs = 0;
epsrel = 0.001;
f = @(x) x*(sin(30.0*x))*cos(x);
[result, abserr, w, iw, ifail] = d01ak(f, a, b, epsabs, epsrel);
fprintf('The approximation to the integral  = %10.6f\n',result);
fprintf('and the estimated absolute error   = %13.5e\n\n',abserr);

n = iw(1);
fprintf('The number of subintervals used = %d;\n',n);
fprintf('the limits of subintervals and their contributions are:\n\n');
fprintf(' subint   a_i      b_i       r_i\n'); 
for i= 1:n;
fprintf('%5d %8.4f %8.4f  %10.6f\n',i,w(i),w(i+n),w(i+3*n));
end

d01ak example results

The approximation to the integral  =  -0.209672
and the estimated absolute error   =   4.47697e-14

The number of subintervals used = 4;
the limits of subintervals and their contributions are:

 subint   a_i      b_i       r_i
    1   0.0000   1.5708    0.000074
    2   1.5708   3.1416    0.104762
    3   3.1416   4.7124   -0.104910
    4   4.7124   6.2832   -0.209598

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