Approximating conformal mappings

[jostpuur]

Is there well known techniques for approximating conformal mappings? Some iterations, that converge towards conformal mappings, for example?

 

[dhris]

What's the application? There are many numerical routines out there for doing various kinds of conformal maps. For example, the sctoolbox for Matlab,
http://www.math.udel.edu/~driscoll/SC/
handles mappings to polygonal regions. And Zipper is a nice fast fortran program for conformal maps:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~marshall/zipper.html

 

[jostpuur]

What's the application?

Transforming PDE with boundary conditions on difficultly shaped boundaries into more pleasant boundary value problems.