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ScienceAsia 37 (2011): 79-82 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2011.37.079


Extended cubic uniform B-spline for a class of singular boundary value problems


Joan Goh*, Ahmad Abd. Majid, Ahmad Izani Md. Ismail

 
ABSTRACT:     B-splines have been widely used to approximate solutions to differential equations. In this paper, a class of singular boundary value problems are treated by using extended cubic uniform B-spline approximations. The advantage of using an extended cubic B-spline rather the ordinary B-spline is that it introduces one additional free parameter. For a number of examples where exact solutions are known, the solutions obtained using the extended B-splines are found to be better approximations than those obtained using ordinary B-splines.

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

* Corresponding author, E-mail: joangoh.usm@gmail.com

Received 23 Aug 2010, Accepted 13 Jan 2011