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    Conformal Mapping

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    A mapping between complex planes is conformal if it preserves angles between intersecting curves. An analytic function defines a conformal mapping except at critical points where the derivative is zero. For example, the mapping w=zn is conformal everywhere except at z=0. Linear fractional transformations are important conformal mappings of the form w=(az+b)/(cz+d) where ad-bc=0. Conformal mapping has applications in potential theory by transforming boundary value problems into simpler regions.

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    A mapping between complex planes is conformal if it preserves angles between intersecting curves. An analytic function defines a conformal mapping except at critical points where the derivative is zero. For example, the mapping w=zn is conformal everywhere except at z=0. Linear fractional transformations are important conformal mappings of the form w=(az+b)/(cz+d) where ad-bc=0. Conformal mapping has applications in potential theory by transforming boundary value problems into simpler regions.

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    A mapping between complex planes is conformal if it preserves angles between intersecting curves. An analytic function defines a conformal mapping except at critical points where the derivative is zero. For example, the mapping w=zn is conformal everywhere except at z=0. Linear fractional transformations are important conformal mappings of the form w=(az+b)/(cz+d) where ad-bc=0. Conformal mapping has applications in potential theory by transforming boundary value problems into simpler regions.

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    A mapping between complex planes is conformal if it preserves angles between intersecting curves. An analytic function defines a conformal mapping except at critical points where the derivative is zero. For example, the mapping w=zn is conformal everywhere except at z=0. Linear fractional transformations are important conformal mappings of the form w=(az+b)/(cz+d) where ad-bc=0. Conformal mapping has applications in potential theory by transforming boundary value problems into simpler regions.

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    Conformal mapping preserves angles between curves and is an important tool in complex analysis and potential theory.

    Conformal mapping is a mapping that preserves angles between oriented curves in both magnitude and direction. It occurs for mappings given by analytic functions, except at critical points where the derivative is zero.

    Linear fractional transformations, also called Möbius transformations, are a special type of conformal mapping of the form w = (az + b)/(cz + d) where ad - bc ≠ 0. They include translations, rotations, and inversions.

    Mapping

    A complex function f (z ) = u(x, y ) + i v (x, y ) gives a mapping of its domain of denition D in the complex z -plane into the complex w-plane. Example: w = f (z ) = z 2 , u = Re(z 2 ) = x2 y 2 , v = Im(z 2 ) = 2xy,

    The lines x = c = const. and y = k = const. are mapped onto v2 v2 = = 4c2 (c2 u), 4k2 (k2 + u), parabolas open to the left, parabolas open to the right.

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 1/6

    Conformal Mapping
    A mapping w = f (z ) is call conformal if it preserves angles between oriented curves in magnitude as well as in sense. The angle (0 ) between two intersecting curves C1 and C2 is dened to be the angle between their oriented tangents at the intersection point z0 .
    and C of C and C make the same The conformality means that the images C1 1 2 2 angle as the curves themselves in both magnitude and direction.

    The mapping w = f (z ) by an analytic function f (z ) is conformal, except at critical points, that is, points at which the derivative f is zero.

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 2/6

    Conformal Mapping, Proof


    Consider a curve, C : z (t) = x(t) + i y (t), in the domain of f (z ). Now z (t) = d z/d t = x (t) + i y (t) is tangent to C . The image C of C is w = f (z (t)). By the chain rule, w (t) = f (z (t)) z (t). Hence the tangent direction of C is given by the argument, argw = argf + argz where argz gives the tangent direction of C . This shows that the mapping rotates all direction at a point z0 in the domain of analyticity of f through the same angle argf , which exists as long as f (z0 ) neq 0.

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 3/6

    Conformal Mapping, Example


    w = zn the mapping w = z n , n = 2, 3, . . . , is conformal, except at z = 0, where w = nz n1 = 0. For general n the angles at 0 are multiplied by a factor n under the mapping. Hence the section 0 /n is mapped by z n onto the upper half-plane v 0.

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 4/6

    Linear Fractional Transformations


    Linear fractional transformations (or Mbius transformations) are mappings w= az + b , cz + d (ad bc = 0),

    where a, b, c, d are complex or real numbers. The differentiation gives, w = ad bc , (c z + d)2

    which motivates the requirement ad bc = 0. Special linear fractional transformation, w w w w = = = = z + b, (Translations), (Rotations),

    a z, with |a| = 1 a z + b, 1/z,

    (Linear transformation), (Inversion int he unit circle).

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 5/6

    Conformal Mapping and the Potential Theory

    Conformality is the most important geometric property of analytic functions and gives the possibility of a geometric approach to complex analysis. A more important application of the conformal mapping is connected with potential problems. Conformal mapping yields a standard method for solving boundary value problems in 2D potential theory by transforming a complicated region into a simple one.

    See Chap. 17 and Chap. 18 in the textbook.

    EE-2020, Spring 2009 p. 6/6

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