From: guido Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:17:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: new module Quadrature X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6af3e7c963d771844b732ff574c68c2283fa80a;p=dealii-svn.git new module Quadrature git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@10705 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/base/dox.h b/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/base/dox.h index 081662125a..110868397d 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/base/dox.h +++ b/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/base/dox.h @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ // $Id$ // Version: $Name$ // -// Copyright (C) 2003 by the deal.II authors +// Copyright (C) 2005 by the deal.II authors // // This file is subject to QPL and may not be distributed // without copyright and license information. Please refer @@ -11,3 +11,25 @@ // //------------------------------------------------------------------------- +/** + * @defgroup Quadrature Quadrature formulæ + * + * This module contains the base class Quadrature as well as the + * quadrature formulæ provided by deal.II. + * + * The class QIterated is used, to construct an iterated quadrature + * formula out of an existing one, thereby increasing the accuracy of + * the formula without increasing the order. + * + * While the usual quadrature formulæ of higher dimensions + * generate tensor products which are equal in each direction, the + * class QAnisotropic generates tensor products of possibly different + * formulæ in each direction. + * + * The class QProjector is not actually a quadrature rule by itself, + * but it provides functions for computing the quadrature on the + * surfaces of higher dimensional cells. + * + * All other classes in this module actually implement quadrature + * rules of different order and other characteristics. + */