Some Observations Regarding Interpolants in the Limit of Flat Radial Basis Functions

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-55

  Fornberg, B ^a   Wright, G ^b   Larsson, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Multivariate interpolation; Radial basis functions (RBF)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; MULTIVARIATE INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS (RBF);

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 0942300715     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(04)90004-1     Document Type: Article

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