@article{39186,
  keywords = {Networks, equations, stability, Approximation, solitary waves, series, fpu lattices, pulse, Weighted RBF fitting},
  author = {Jamshidi and Gear and Kevrekidis},
  title = {Time varying radial basis functions},
  abstract = { <p>We introduce radial basis functions (RBFs) whose time-varying coefficients determine not only the amplitude and position of each RBF but also their shape. The intended use of these Time Varying-RBFs (TV-RBFs) is in the local-in-time representation of low-dimensional approximations of functions that arise in solving spatiotemporal evolution problems; in particular, for time-varying spatially localized solutions with a temporal translation component such as traveling waves, modulated pulses or soliton-like solutions of evolutionary differential equations. This paper is restricted to the one-dimensional spatial case. We also present an algorithm that places the Time Varying-RBFs (TV-RBFs) over spatiotemporal data that may come from experiments, from finely discretized PDE simulations, or even from multiscale, particle-based simulations. It first approximates the function at a single time instant (a temporal snapshot) as a sum of RBFs using a novel weighted minimization that causes each RBF to primarily approximate one of the localized parts of the function). It then extends that approximation to TV-RBFs over a sequence of snapshots of the function at different times. We conclude by discussing the potential uses of these TV-RBFs. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p> },
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics},
  volume = {266},
  pages = {61-72},
  month = {08/2014},
  isbn = {0377-0427},
  language = {English},
}