In standard equispaced finite difference (FD) formulas, symmetries can make the order of accuracy relatively high compared to the number of nodes in the FD stencil. With scattered nodes, such symmetries are no longer available. Thus, the number of nodes in the stencils can be relatively large compared to the resulting accuracy. The generalization of mehrstellenverfahren (compact) FD (CFD) formu...

j=1 yj φ(‖x − xj‖2), x ∈ R , where φ: [0,∞) → R is some given function, (yj) n 1 are real coefficients, and the centres (xj) n 1 are points in R. For a wide class of functions φ, it is known that the interpolation matrix A = (φ(‖xj − xk‖2)) n j,k=1 is invertible. Further, several recent papers have provided upper bounds on ‖A‖2, where the points (xj) n 1 satisfy the condition ‖xj − xk‖2 ≥ δ, j ...

This paper develops some mollification formulas involving convolutions between popular radial basis function (RBF) basic functions Φ, and suitable mollifiers. Polyharmonic splines, scaled Bessel kernels (Matern functions) and compactly supported basic functions are considered. A typical result is that in Rd the convolution of | • |β and (•2 + c2)−(β+2d)/2 is the generalized multiquadric (•2 + c...

An improvement to the traditional Finite Volume Method (FVM) for the solution of boundary value problems is presented. The new method applies the local Hermitian interpolation with Radial Basis Functions (RBF) as an interpolation scheme to the FVM discretization. This approach, called the Control Volume-Radial Basis Function (CV-RBF) method, uses an interpolation scheme based on the meshless Sy...

In this paper, the localized method of approximate particular solutions (LMAPS) using radial basis functions (RBFs) has been simplified and applied to near-singular elliptic problems in twoand three-dimensional spaces. The leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) is used in LMAPS to search for a good shape parameter of multiquadric RBF. The main advantage of the method is that a small number of n...

The accuracy of interpolation by a radial basis function φ is usually very satisfactory provided that the approximant f is reasonably smooth. However, for functions which have smoothness below a certain order associated with the basis function φ, no approximation power has yet been established. Hence, the purpose of this study is to discuss the Lp-approximation order (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of interpolatio...

Eight interpolation methods are implemented and tested over a 60 km × 60 km region in Korea, using the results from automatic stereo-matching of SPOT images. First, with the simulated elevation data from digitised contours of paper maps, Kriging and Multiquadric methods show higher performance: with the accuracy better than 3 m than other methods and the speed of ~400 s on a Sparc 20 machine. S...

In this paper, an effective procedure based on coordinate stretching and radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation method is applied to solve singularly perturbed differential-difference equations with layer behavior. It is well known that if the boundary layer is very small, for good resolution of the numerical solution at least one of the collocation points must lie in the boundary layer. In ...