THE DOUBLET

A particular case of dipole is the so called doublet, in which the quantity a tends to zero so that the source and sink both moves towards the origin.

The complex potential of a doublet

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is obtained making the limit of the dipole potential for vanishing a with the constraint that the intensity of the source and the sink must correspondingly tend to infinity as a approaches zero, the quantity

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being constant (if we just superimpose a source and sink in the origin the resulting potential would be W = 0)

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