A modified Shepard interpolation scheme is used to construct global potential energy surfaces (PES) in order to calculate quantum observables--vibrationally averaged internal coordinates, fully anharmonic zero-point energies and nuclear radial distribution functions--for a prototypical loosely bound molecular system, the water dimer. The efficiency of PES construction is examined with respect t...

It has been proven by the authors that both the upper and lower bounds in energy norm of the exact solution to elasticity problems can now be obtained by using the fully compatible finite element method (FEM) and linearly conforming point interpolation method (LC-PIM). This paper examines the upper bound property of the linearly conforming radial point interpolation method (LC-RPIM), where the ...

The essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) method is an efficient high order numerical method for solving hyperbolic conservation laws designed to reduce the Gibbs oscillations, if existent, by adaptively choosing the local stencil for the interpolation. The original ENO method is constructed based on the polynomial interpolation and the overall rate of convergence provided by the method is uniquely...

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...

We propose the use of the meshfree radial basis point interpolation (RBPI) to solve the Black–Scholes model for European and American options. The RBPI meshfree method offers several advantages over the more conventional radial basis function approximation, nevertheless it has never been applied to option pricing, at least to the very best of our knowledge. In this paper the RBPI is combined wi...

Multilevel scattered data interpolation requires decomposing the given data into a hierarchy of nested subsets. This paper concerns the eecient construction of such hierarchies. To this end, a recursive lter scheme for scattered data is proposed which generates hierarchies of locally optimal nested subsets. The scheme is a composition of greedy thinning, a recursive point removal strategy, and ...

We introduce a method that aims to nd the global minimum of a continuous nonconvex function on a compact subset of IR d. It is assumed that function evaluations are expensive and that no additional information is available. Radial basis function interpolation is used to deene a utility function. The maximizer of this function is the next point where the objective function is evaluated. We show ...

Based on the recently developed Finite Integration Method (FIM) for solving one-dimensional ordinary and partial differential equations, this paper extends the technique to higher dimensional partial differential equations. The main idea is to extend the first order finite integration matrices constructed by using either Ordinary Linear Approach (OLA) (uniform distribution of nodes) or Radial B...