English Explanatory Dictionary

Schwarz-Christoffel mapping

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A conformal map of the upper half-plane or the complex unit disk onto the interior of a simple polygon; used in minimal surfaces, hyperbolic art, and fluid dynamics.

Word forms

Schwarz-Christoffel mapping Schwarz-Christoffel mappings

Etymology

They were introduced independently by Elwin Christoffel in 1867 and Hermann Schwarz in 1869.

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