Powell-Sabin splines with boundary conditions for polygonal and non-polygonal domains

  • Authors:
  • Hendrik Speleers;Paul Dierckx;Stefan Vandewalle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Powell-Sabin splines are piecewise quadratic polynomials with a global C^1-continuity, defined on conforming triangulations. Imposing boundary conditions on such a spline leads to a set of constraints on the spline coefficients. First, we discuss boundary conditions defined on a polygonal domain, before we treat boundary conditions on a general curved domain boundary. We consider Dirichlet and Neumann conditions, and we show that a particular choice of the PS-triangles at the boundary can greatly simplify the corresponding constraints. Finally, we consider an application where the techniques developed in this paper are used: the numerical solution of a partial differential equation by the Galerkin and collocation method.