Summary. Efficiency of high-order essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) approximations of conservation laws can be drastically improved if ideas of multiresolution analysis are taken into account. These methods of data compression not only reduce the necessary amount of discrete data but can also serve as tools in detecting local low-dimensional features in the numerical solution. We describe the mathematical background of the generalized multiresolution analysis as developed by Abgrall and Harten in [14], [15] and [3]. We were able to ultimately reduce the functional analytic background to matrix-vector operations of linear algebra. We consider the example of interpolation on the line as well as the important case of multiresolution analysis of cell average data which is used in finite volume approximations. In contrast to Abgrall and Harten, we develop a robust agglomeration procedure and recovery algorithms based on least-squeare polynomials. The efficiency of our algorithms is documented by means of several examples.
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Received April 4, 1998 / Revised version August 2, 1999 / Published online June 8, 2000
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Schröder-Pander, F., Sonar, T. & Friedrich, O. Generalized multiresolution analysis on unstructured grids. Numer. Math. 86, 685–715 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00005415
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00005415