Error and Stability Estimates for Surface-Divergence Free RBF Interpolants on the Sphere

Edward J. Fuselier, Francis J. Narcowich, Joseph D. Ward, Grady Wright

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Abstract

Recently, a new class of surface-divergence free radial basis function interpolants has been developed for surfaces in R 3 . In this paper, several approximation results for this class of interpolants will be derived in the case of the sphere, S 2 . In particular, Sobolev-type error estimates are obtained, as well as optimal stability estimates for the associated interpolation matrices. In addition, a Bernstein estimate and an inverse theorem are also derived. Numerical validation of the theoretical results is also given.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)2157-2186
Number of pages30
JournalMathematics of Computation
Volume78
Issue number268
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Incompressible fluids
  • Numerical modeling
  • Radial basis functions
  • Sphere
  • Stream function
  • Vector fields

EGS Disciplines

  • Mathematics

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