Stability and error estimates for vector field interpolation and decomposition on the sphere with RBFS

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3213-3239

  Fuselier, Edward J ^a   Wright, Grady B ^b  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curl free; Divergence free; Mesh free; Numerical modeling; Radial basis functions; Sphere; Vector field decomposition

Indexed keywords

CURL-FREE; DIVERGENCE-FREE; MESH-FREE; NUMERICAL MODELING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; VECTOR FIELD DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SPHERES;

VECTORS;

EID: 70350150890     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080730901     Document Type: Article

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