Interpolating Shape Functions Wednesday, 10/16/2002
Local Interpolation (1D)
Local Shape Function (1D)
1D Shape Function in Local Coordinate System
1D Shape Function
Global Shape Function (1D)
Out of Cell Shape Function is 0
2D Shape Function 1D Shape Function
2D Interpolation Surface
Interpolation Surface
Shape Function (2D)
Bilinear Shape Function
2D Shape Function
2D Global Shape Function L is half of the cell size
Out of Cell Shape Function is Zero
Properties of Shape Function (1) Partition of unity (2) Positive (3) Kronecker delta m and n are grid nodes. (4) Interpolation (5) Smooth everywhere, except at nodes where they are continuous.