Multivariate refinable Hermite interpolants with high smoothness and small support are of interest in CAGD and numerical algorithms. In this article, we are particularly interested in analyzing some univariate and bivariate symmetric refinable Hermite interpolants, which have some desirable properties such as short support, optimal smoothness and spline property. We shall study the projection m...

This work proposes a simple and fast approach for re-meshing the surfaces of smooth-featured geometries prior to CFD analysis. The aim is to improve mesh quality and thus the convergence and accuracy of the CFD analysis. The method is based on constructing an interpolant based on the geometry shape and then mapping a regular rectangular grid to the shape of the original geometry using that inte...

It has been known that an efficient approach to the determination of the convex best C-spline interpolant to a set of given data is to solve its unconstrained dual program by standard numerical methods (e.g., Newton’s method.) Regularity and well-posedness of the dual program, which are two important issues but not well-addressed in the literature, are focus of the paper. Our well-posedness res...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing compact support interpolation kernels for a given class of signals. By using calculus of variations, we simplify the optimization problem from an infinite nonlinear problem to a finite dimensional linear case, and then find the optimum compact support function that best approximates a given filter in the least square sense (l2 norm). The be...

It is shown that a bounded bi-infinite banded totally positive matrix A is boundedly invertible iff there is one and only one bounded sequence mapped by A to the sequence ((-)')■ The argument shows that such a matrix has a main diagonal, i.e., the inverse of A is the bounded pointwise limit of inverses of finite sections of A principal with respect to a particular diagonal; hence ((—)'+^4~ (j, ...

It is shown that a bounded bi-infinite banded totally positive matrix A is boundedly invertible iff there is one and only one bounded sequence mapped by A to the sequence ((-)')■ The argument shows that such a matrix has a main diagonal, i.e., the inverse of A is the bounded pointwise limit of inverses of finite sections of A principal with respect to a particular diagonal; hence ((—)'+^4~ (j, ...

The B-spline representation for divided di erences is used, for the rst time, to provide Lp-bounds for the error in Hermite interpolation, and its derivatives, thereby simplifying and improving the results to be found in the extensive literature on the problem. These bounds are equivalent to certain Wirtinger inequalities (cf. [FMP91:p66]). The major result is the inequality jf(x) H f(x)j n 1=q...

In this paper, a new partition of unity ± the synchronized reproducing kernel (SRK) interpolant ± is derived. It is a class of meshless shape functions that exhibit synchronized convergence phenomenon: the convergence rate of the interpolation error of the higher order derivatives of the shape function can be tuned to be that of the shape function itself. This newly designed synchronized reprod...

The interpolation of discrete spatial data — a sequence of points and unit tangents — by G1 Pythagorean– hodograph (PH) quintic spline curves, under shape constraints, is addressed. To achieve this, a local Hermite scheme incorporating a tension parameter for each spline segment is employed, the imposed shape constraints being concerned with preservation of convexity at the knots and the sign o...