Numerical differentiation by radial basis functions approximation

Based on radial basis functions approximation, we develop in this paper a new com-putational algorithm for numerical differentiation. Under an a priori and an a posteriori choice rules for the regularization parameter, we also give a proof on the convergence error estimate in reconstructing the unknown partial derivatives from scattered noisy data in multi-dimension. Numerical examples verify that the proposed regularization strategy with the a posteriori choice rule is effective and stable to solve the numerical differential problem. *The work described in this paper was partially supported by a grant from CityU (Project No. 7001646) and partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10571079).