A General Superconvergence Result for Cubature on Triangulated Polygonal Domains

Cubature rules, which approximate definite integrals as a linear combination of a set of function values, are ubiquitous and necessary for computational methods in the physical sciences. A superconvergence result for cubature rules on polygonal domains is developed, whereby a rule that is exact for all bivariate polynomials of a fixed even degree realize an extra order of convergence under a decrease in the spacing between nodes.