Synchronized reproducing kernel interpolant via multiple wavelet expansion (Q1129570)

We derive a new partition of unity -- the synchronized reproducing kernel interpolant. 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 reproducing kernel interpolant is constructed as an series expansion of a scaling function kernel and the associated wavelet functions. The first-order wavelet together with the scaling function kernel can be used as a weighting function in Petrov-Galerkin procedures to provide a stable numerical computation in some pathological problems. Benchmark problems in advection-diffusion problems, and Stokes flow problem are solved by using the synchronized reproducing kernel interpolant as the weighting function, and reasonably good results are obtained.