sparse_grid_laguerre


sparse_grid_laguerre, a FORTRAN90 code which constructs sparse grids based on 1D Gauss-Laguerre rules.

Sparse grids are more naturally constructed from a nested family of quadrature rules. Gauss-Laguerre rules are not nested, but have higher accuracy. Thus, there can be a tradeoff. If we compare two sparse grids of the same "level", one using Gauss-Laguerre rules and the other a nested rule, then the Gauss-Laguerre sparse grid will have higher accuracy...but also a significantly greater number of points. When measuring efficiency, we really need to balance the cost in quadrature points against the accuracy, and so it is not immediately obvious which choice is best!

To slightly complicate matters, Gauss-Laguerre rules are not nested. A sparse grid constructed from Gauss-Laguerre rules will thus generally have more abscissas than a grid built of nested rules..

Here is a table showing the number of points in a sparse grid based on Gauss-Laguerre rules, indexed by the spatial dimension, and by the "level", which is simply an index for the family of sparse grids.
DIM:123456
LEVEL_MAX      
0111111
13710131619
27295895141196
315952555159061456
431273945230947468722
563723312090652150344758
6127181394843225987358204203

Licensing:

The code described and made available on this web page is distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

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

Related Data and Programs:

sparse_grid_laguerre_test

QUADRATURE_RULES, a dataset directory which defines quadrature rules; a number of examples of sparse grid quadrature rules are included.

quad_rule, a FORTRAN90 library which defines quadrature rules for various intervals and weight functions.

SGMGA, a FORTRAN90 library which creates sparse grids based on a mixture of 1D quadrature rules, allowing anisotropic weights for each dimension.

SPARSE_GRID_GL, a FORTRAN90 library which computes a sparse grid based on 1D Gauss-Legendre rules..

SPARSE_GRID_HERMITE, a FORTRAN90 library which creates sparse grids based on Gauss-Hermite rules.

SPARSE_GRID_HW, a FORTRAN90 library which creates sparse grids based on Gauss-Legendre, Gauss-Hermite, Gauss-Patterson, or a nested variation of Gauss-Hermite rules, by Florian Heiss and Viktor Winschel.

SPARSE_GRID_MIXED, a FORTRAN90 library which constructs a sparse grid using different rules in each spatial dimension.

Reference:

  1. Volker Barthelmann, Erich Novak, Klaus Ritter,
    High Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Sparse Grids,
    Advances in Computational Mathematics,
    Volume 12, Number 4, 2000, pages 273-288.
  2. Thomas Gerstner, Michael Griebel,
    Numerical Integration Using Sparse Grids,
    Numerical Algorithms,
    Volume 18, Number 3-4, 1998, pages 209-232.
  3. Albert Nijenhuis, Herbert Wilf,
    Combinatorial Algorithms for Computers and Calculators,
    Second Edition,
    Academic Press, 1978,
    ISBN: 0-12-519260-6,
    LC: QA164.N54.
  4. Fabio Nobile, Raul Tempone, Clayton Webster,
    A Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Method for Partial Differential Equations with Random Input Data,
    SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis,
    Volume 46, Number 5, 2008, pages 2309-2345.
  5. Sergey Smolyak,
    Quadrature and Interpolation Formulas for Tensor Products of Certain Classes of Functions,
    Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR,
    Volume 4, 1963, pages 240-243.
  6. Dennis Stanton, Dennis White,
    Constructive Combinatorics,
    Springer, 1986,
    ISBN: 0387963472,
    LC: QA164.S79.

Source Code:


Last revised on 16 January 2023.