Flexible piecewise approximations based on partition of unity

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 191-199

  Han, Weimin ^a   Liu, Wing Kam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Galerkin method; Nodal interpolation; Partition of unity; Polynomial reproducing; Smooth piecewise approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244410108     PISSN: 10197168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10444-004-1810-z     Document Type: Article

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