Creating domain mappings
  Consider being given a mapping \phi from the unit sphere S^{d-1}, d>2, to the smooth boundary of a simply-connected region \Omega in R^d. We consider the problem of constructing an extension \Phi from the unit ball B_d to \Omega. The mapping is required to be 1-1 and continuously differentiable with a nonsingular Jacobian matrix. We discuss ways of obtaining initial guesses for such a mapping \Phi and of then improving it by an iteration method. 
Kendall Atkinson, Olaf Hansen
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