Wind Velocity Data Interpolation Using Rational Cubic Spline

Abstract

Wind velocity data is always having positive value and the minimum value approximately close to zero. The standard cubic spline interpolation (not-a-knot and natural) as well as cubic Hermite polynomial may be produces interpolating curve with negative values on some subintervals. To cater this problem, a new rational cubic spline with three parameters is constructed. This rational spline will be used to preserve the positivity of the wind velocity data. Numerical results shows that the proposed scheme work very well and give visually pleasing interpolating curve on the given domain.