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Mohammad Ghomi
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It seems that what you are asking is essentially how one can approximate the area of a surface via triangulations. This is a classical topic stretching back more than a century. The famous example of Schwartz Lantern shows that arbitrary triangulations do not work. Young first described conditions which triangulations should satisfy in order to approximate area:

W.H. Young, On the Triangulation Method of Defining the Area of a Surface, 1921.

These approximations have been studied extensively since then. For a description of Young's condition and other references see the following paper posted recently on the arXiv:

Kobayashi and Tsuchiya, Approximating surface areas by interpolations on triangulations, 2017.

See also

L. V. Toralballa, A geometric theory of surface area, 1970

for more references. I think that these papers answer your question. Some of these references are concerned only with 2-D surfaces, but Young's original paper seems to consider arbitrary dimensions. Further, these methods require very little regularity.

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