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Adaptive procedure for approximating functions by continuous piecewise polynomials

✍ Scribed by Chen, Qi ;Babuška, Ivo

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 727 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 1069-8299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0887(199608)12:8<483::aid-cnm996>3.0.co;2-x

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✦ Synopsis

The problem of approximating functions is considered in a general domain in one and two dimensions using piecewise polynomial interpolation. An error estimator is proposed which shows how to adaptively determine the interpolation degree. Numerical examples are given.

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