Title
Representation of piecewise biharmonic surfaces using biquadratic B-Splines
Abstract
Piecewise biquadratic B-Spline surface satisfying biharmonic condition is studied in this paper. By applying biharmonic PDE, biquadratic B-Spline surface is fully determined by boundary control vertices. A linear system for solving inner control vertices is established. Its coefficient matrix is block tridiagonal and the proof of non-singularity of coefficient matrix is presented under the condition that all knots do not coincide with each other. A few examples are given to show the effectiveness of piecewise biharmonic biquadratic B-Spline surface. An interpolation method on given boundary points is presented if boundary curves are open.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.cam.2015.05.025
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biharmonic,Biquadratic B-Spline,Block tridiagonal matrix,Non-singularity
Tridiagonal matrix,Spline (mathematics),Mathematical optimization,Coefficient matrix,Vertex (geometry),Mathematical analysis,Interpolation,Biharmonic Bézier surface,Biharmonic equation,Piecewise,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
290
C
0377-0427
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuli Han115922.91
Jing Han200.34