Spectral radial basis functions for full sphere computations

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2007.08.026zbMath1128.65016MaRDI QIDQ2464986

Steven J. Worland, Chris A. Jones, Philip W. Livermore

Publication date: 18 December 2007

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.08.026

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples; radial basis functions; Jacobi polynomials; spectral method; polar coordinates; Chebyshev polynomial; coordinate singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D15: Algorithms for approximation of functions

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