Fast conformal mapping of multiply connected regions

An iterative method is presented which constructs for an unbounded region G with m holes and sufficiently smooth boundary a circular region H and a conformal mapping Φ from H to G. With the usual normalization both H and Φ are uniquely determined by G. With a few modifications the method can also be applied to a bounded region G with m holes. The canonical region H is then the unit disc with m circular holes. The proposed method also determines the centers and radii of the boundary circles of H and requires, at each iterative step, the solution of a Riemann–Hilbert (RH) problem, which has a unique solution. Numerically, the RH problem can be treated efficiently by the method of successive conjugation using the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The iteration for the solution of the RH problem converges linearly. The conformal mapping method converges quadratically. The results of some test calculations exemplify the performance of the method.