A stabilised mixed finite element method for thin plate splines based on biorthogonal systems

A Stabilized Mixed Finite Element Method for Thin Plate Splines Based on Biorthogonal Systems

The thin plate spline is a popular tool for the interpolation and smoothing of scattered data. In this paper we propose a novel stabilized mixed finite element method for the discretization of thin plate splines. The mixed formulation is obtained by introducing the gradient of the smoother as an additional unknown. Working with a pair of bases for the gradient of the smoother and the Lagrange m...

Finite Element Thin Plate Splines

Finite Element Thin Plate Splines for Data Mining Applications

Thin plate splines have been used successfully to model curves and surfaces. A new application is in data mining where they are used to model interaction terms. These interaction splines break the \curse of dimensionality" by reducing the high-dimensional nonparametric regression problem to the determination of a set of interdependent surfaces. However, the determination of the corresponding th...

Finite Element Thin Plate Splines for Surface Fitting

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A Mixed Finite Element Method for the Biharmonic Problem Using Biorthogonal or Quasi-Biorthogonal Systems

We consider a finite element method based on biorthogonal or quasi-biorthogonal systems for the biharmonic problem. The method is based on the primal mixed finite element method due to Ciarlet and Raviart for the biharmonic equation. Using different finite element spaces for the stream function and vorticity, this approach leads to a formulation only based on the stream function. We prove optim...