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Analytical functions: conformal map and applications to hydrodynamics

This homework deals with the application of conformal maps to the study of two-dimensional hydrodynamics. A conformal map is a geometrical transformation which preserves all (oriented) crossing angles between lines. In dimension a conformal map is necessarily composed from the following limited number of transformations: translations, rotations, homothetic transformation and special conformal transformation (which is the composition of a reflection and an inversion in a sphere). However in two dimensions, , the space of conformal mappings is much larger and one can show that, given an open set , any holomorphic function such that , defines a conformal map from to . The aim of this HW is to exploit this property to study some hydrodynamic flows in two spatial dimensions.


Joukovski's transformation

The Joukovski's transformation is defined by the following application