A series expansion with remainder for functions in a Sobolev space is derived in terms of the classical Bernoulli polynomials, the B-spline scale-space and the continuous wavelet transforms with the derivatives of the standardized B-splines as mother wavelets. In the limit as their orders tend to infinity, the B-splines and their derivatives converge to the Gaussian function and its derivatives...

The construction of range restricted univariate and bivariate interpolants to gridded data is considered. We apply Gregory’s rational cubic C splines as well as related rational quintic C splines. Assume that the lower and upper obstacles are compatible with the data set. Then the tension parameters occurring in the mentioned spline classes can be always determined in such a way that range rest...

Abstract In this paper, we present a new form of density based topology optimization where the design space is restricted to the B-spline space. An arbitrarily shaped design domain is embedded into a rectangular domain in which tensor-product B-splines are used to represent the density field. We show that, with proper choice of B-spline degrees and knot spans, the B-spline design space is free ...

This paper presents a linearized approach for the controller design of the shape of the output probability density functions for general stochastic systems. A square root approximation to the output probability density function is realized by a set of B-spline functions. This generally produces a nonlinear state space model for the weights of the B-spline approximation. A linearized model is th...

Basis functions of biquadratic polynomial spline spaces over hierarchical T-meshes are constructed. The basis functions are all tensor-product B-splines, which are linearly independent, nonnegative and complete. To make basis functions more efficient for geometric modeling, we also give out a new basis with the property of unit partition. Two preliminary applications are given to demonstrate th...

The problems of determining the B–spline form of a C Pythagorean– hodograph (PH) quintic spline curve interpolating given points, and of using this form to make local modifications, are addressed. To achieve the correct order of continuity, a quintic B–spline basis constructed on a knot sequence in which each (interior) knot is of multiplicity 3 is required. C quintic bases on uniform triple kn...

quartic non-polynomial spline function approximation in off step points is developed, for the solution of fourth-order boundary value problems. using consistency relation of such spline and suitable choice of parameter,we have obtained second, fourth and sixth orders methods. convergence analysis of sixth order method has been given. the methods are illustrated by some examples, to verify the or...

This paper studies the merits of using knot interval notation for B-spline curves, and presents formulae in terms of knot intervals for common B-spline operations such as knot insertion, differentiation, and degree elevation. Using knot interval notation, the paper introduces MD-splines, which are B-spline-like curves that are comprised of polynomial segments of various degrees (MD stands for “...