PetRBF - A parallel O(N) algorithm for radial basis function interpolation with Gaussians

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 199, Issue 25-28, 2010, Pages 1793-1804

  Yokota, Rio ^a   Barba, L A ^b   Knepley, Matthew G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition methods; Gmres; Order N algorithms; Parallel computing; Particle methods; Radial basis function interpolation

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE SCHWARZ METHOD; BASIS FUNCTIONS; DATA POINTS; ERROR TOLERANCE; FLUID SIMULATIONS; GAUSSIAN BASIS FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIANS; ITERATIVE SOLVERS; MACHINE PRECISION; MATRIX-VECTOR; MULTIQUADRICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; O ALGORITHM; OPEN-SOURCE MODEL; ORDER-N ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL CODE; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PARTICLE METHODS; POWERPC PROCESSORS; PRECONDITIONERS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RAPID CONVERGENCE; SUB-DOMAINS; TARGET APPLICATION;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; COMPUTATION THEORY; INTERPOLATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS;

EID: 77952583674     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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