A Parametric Cubic Element with Tension Properties

DOI10.1137/S0036142997320723MaRDI QIDQ4243580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Costantini, Carla Manni

Publication date 19 May 1999

Published in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036142997320723

zbMATH Keywords

barycentric coordinatesbivariate caseClough-Tocher splitparametric cubic elementparametric surfacesscattered data interpolationtension schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Numerical interpolation (65D05) Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10)

Review text

The authors present the construction and study the properties of a new parametric cubic element having tension properties. The element is based on the Clough-Tocher split of a given triangle. Due to its tension properties the element can be used to obtain a local interpolation scheme for scattered data. The authors extend the idea of an earlier work of the second author [\textit{C. Manni}, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 69, No. 1, 143-157 (1996; Zbl 0858.65007)] to the bivariate case for scattered data. Considering the problem in the parametric setting, the required \(C^ 1\) interpolating function is constructed as a collection of triangular parametric patches. Assuming that positions and gradients are prescribed for each vertex of a given triangulation of the data set, the functional patch corresponding to a given triangle is represented as a composition of parametric surfaces, where each component is a Clough-Tocher macro-element which interpolates the corresponding component of the data.

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