Cubic spline

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Cubic B-Splines Cubic B-splines can also be used to solve differential equations (Refs. 105 and 266). 

Complex dependencies RI = /(f ) in nonisothermal conditions of GC analysis may be described by polynomials of different degrees (up to 13 have been tested) or splines (cubic splines seem most convenient). However, the calculation of coefficients of an N-degree polynomial needs data for at least N + I reference compounds instead of only two tg values as in classical RI systems. In connection with this fact, it is interesting to mention the combined hn-log RI system, which was proposed in 1984 (3,4). If both the dependencies (3) and (6) are nonlinear at temperature programming, every local window of retention times for reference compounds may be precisely approximated by linear and logarithmic addends in variable proportion ... 

MATLAB has several functions for interpolation. The function = interpl(x, y, x) takes the values of the independent variable x and the dependent variable y (base points) and does the one-dimensional interpolation based on x, to find yj. The default method of interpolation is linear. However, the user can choose the method of interpolation in the fourth input argument from nearest (nearest neighbor interpolation), linear (linear interpolation), spline (cubic spline interpolation), and cubic (cubic inteipolation). If the vector of independent variable is not equally spaced, the function interplq may be used instead. It is faster than interpl because it does not check the input arguments. MATLAB also has the function sp/ine to perform one-dimensional interpolation by cubic. splines, using nat-a- not method, ft can also return coefficients of piecewise poiynomiais, if required. The functions interp2, inte.rp3, and interpn perform two-, three-, and n-dimensional interpolation, respectively. 

Figure C2.17.13. A model calculation of the optical absorjDtion of gold nanocrystals. The fonnalism outlined in the text is used to calculate the absorjDtion cross section of bulk gold (solid curve) and of gold nanoparticles of 3 mn (long dashes), 2 mn (short dashes) and 1 mn (dots) radius. The bulk dielectric properties are obtained from a cubic spline fit to the data of [237]. The small blue shift and substantial broadening which result from the mean free path limitation are...

A simple inspection shows that cubic functions (splines) shown graphically in Figure 2.5 satisfy the above conditions. 

Several basis schemes are used for very-high-accuracy calculations. The highest-accuracy HF calculations use numerical basis sets, usually a cubic spline method. For high-accuracy correlated calculations with an optimal amount of computing effort, correlation-consistent basis sets have mostly replaced ANO... 

Sphnes are functions that match given values at the points X, . . . , x t and have continuous derivatives up to some order at the knots, or the points X9,. . . , x vr-i-Cubic sphnes are most common see Ref. 38. The function is represented by a cubic polynomial within each interval Xj, X, +1) and has continuous first and second derivatives at the knots. Two more conditions can be specified arbitrarily. These are usually the second derivatives at the two end points, which are commonly taken as zero this gives the natural cubic splines. 

Since the continuity conditions apply only for i = 2,. . . , NT — 1, we have only NT — 2 conditions for the NT values of y. Two additional conditions are needed, and these are usually taken as the value of the second derivative at each end of the domain, y, y f. If these values are zero, we get the natural cubic splines they can also be set to achieve some other purpose, such as making the first derivative match some desired condition at the two ends. With these values taken as zero in the natural cubic spline, we have a NT — 2 system of tridiagonal equations, which is easily solved. Once the second derivatives are known at each of the knots, the first derivatives are given by... 

Errors in advection may completely overshadow diffusion. The amplification of random errors with each succeeding step causes numerical instability (or distortion). Higher-order differencing techniques are used to avoid this instability, but they may result in sharp gradients, which may cause negative concentrations to appear in the computations. Many of the numerical instability (distortion) problems can be overcome with a second-moment scheme (9) which advects the moments of the distributions instead of the pollutants alone. Six numerical techniques were investigated (10), including the second-moment scheme three were found that limited numerical distortion the second-moment, the cubic spline, and the chapeau function. 

Figure 2 (a) The pair interaction V as a function of distance PdsoRhso alloy, (b) Spinodal curve for Pdj.Rhi j alloy system. The points indicate calculated points while the solid line is the cubic spline fit through the points. 

These functions are truncated and shifted to zero at a cutoff-distance between the third and fourth nearest neighbor shell. N ai is the number of valence electrons and U4s is a parameter. Following Daw and Baskes further on we use cubic spline functions to represent the functions and Z(r). The splii s have been fitted to... 

The functional forms of the potentials are the same as in a number of previous cases in which the same scheme was employed (Ackland, et al. 1987 Vitek, et al. 1991). They are cubic splines so that the functions which make up the potentials are ... 

In a high-order polynomial, the highly inflected character of the function can more accurately be reproduced by the cubic spline function. Given a series... 

Halang, W. A., Langlais, R., and Kugler, E., Cubic Spline Interpolation for the Calculation of Retention Indices in Temperature-Programmed Gas-Liquid Chromatography, Ana/. Chem. 50, 1978, 1829-1832. 

Fig. 8. Typical wavelets and scaling functions (a) Haar, (b) Daubechies-6, (c) cubic spline.

Fig. 11. Wavelet decomposition (a) dyadic sampling using Daubechies-6 wavelet (b) uniform sampling using cubic spline wavelet.

Step 1. Generate the finite, discrete dyadic wavelet transform of data using Mallat and Zhong s (1992) cubic spline wavelet (Fig. 8c). 

The best and easiest way to smooth the data and avoid misuse of the polynomial curve fitting is by employing smooth cubic splines. IMSL provides two routines for this purpose CSSCV and CSSMH. The latter is more versatile as it gives the option to the user to apply different levels of smoothing by controlling a single parameter. Furthermore, IMSL routines CSVAL and CSDER can be used once the coefficients of the cubic spines have been computed by CSSMH to calculate the smoothed values of the state variables and their derivatives respectively. 

Finally, the user should always be aware of the danger in getting numerical estimates of the derivatives from the data. Different smoothing cubic splines or polynomials can result in similar values for the state variables and at the same time have widely different estimates of the derivatives. This problem can be controlled... 

As we mentioned, the first and probably most crucial step is the computation of the time derivatives of the state variables from smoothed data. The best and easiest way to smooth the data is using smooth cubic splines using the IMSL routines CSSMH, CSVAL CSDER. The latter two are used once the cubic splines coefficients and break points have been computed by CSSMH to generate the values of the smoothed measurements and their derivatives (rj, and t] )-... 

Figure 7.1 Smoothed data for variables Xi and, x2 using a smooth cubic spline approximation (s/N O.Ol, 0.1 and I).

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