## Journal of Applied Mathematics

### Piecewise Bivariate Hermite Interpolations for Large Sets of Scattered Data

#### Abstract

The requirements for interpolation of scattered data are high accuracy and high efficiency. In this paper, a piecewise bivariate Hermite interpolant satisfying these requirements is proposed. We firstly construct a triangulation mesh using the given scattered point set. Based on this mesh, the computational point ($x,y$) is divided into two types: interior point and exterior point. The value of Hermite interpolation polynomial on a triangle will be used as the approximate value if point ($x,y$) is an interior point, while the value of a Hermite interpolation function with the form of weighted combination will be used if it is an exterior point. Hermite interpolation needs the first-order derivatives of the interpolated function which is not directly given in scatted data, so this paper also gives the approximate derivative at every scatted point using local radial basis function interpolation. And numerical tests indicate that the proposed piecewise bivariate Hermite interpolations are economic and have good approximation capacity.

#### Article information

Source
J. Appl. Math., Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 239703, 10 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 14 March 2014

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jam/1394807934

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1155/2013/239703

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3039749

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1266.33011

#### Citation

Feng, Renzhong; Zhang, Yanan. Piecewise Bivariate Hermite Interpolations for Large Sets of Scattered Data. J. Appl. Math. 2013 (2013), Article ID 239703, 10 pages. doi:10.1155/2013/239703. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jam/1394807934

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