WIAS Preprint No. 2096, (2015)

Multilevel interpolation of divergence-free vector fields



Authors

  • Farrell, Patricio
    ORCID: 0000-0001-9969-6615
  • Gillow, Kathryn
  • Wendland, Holger

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 65D15 65D05

Keywords

  • meshfree methods, multilevel approximation, divergence-free, radial basis functions

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2096

Abstract

We introduce a multilevel technique for interpolating scattered data of divergence-free vector fields with the help of matrix-valued compactly supported kernels. The support radius at a given level is linked to the mesh norm of the data set at that level. There are at least three advantages of this method: no grid structure is necessary for the implementation, the multilevel approach is computationally cheaper than solving a large one-shot system and the interpolant is guaranteed to be analytically divergence-free. Furthermore, though we will not pursue this here, our multiscale approach is able to represent multiple scales in the data if present. We will prove convergence of the scheme, stability estimates and give a numerical example.

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