Extended Cubic B-spline Interpolation Method Applied to Linear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems

Linear two-point boundary value problem of order two is solved using extended cubic B-spline interpolation method. There is one free parameters, λ, that control the tension of the solution curve. For some λ, this method produced better results than cubic B-spline interpolation method.





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