INFLUENCE OF PARALLEL VISCOSITY ON TEARING MODE-STABILITY

Authors
XIE HX BONDESON A
Citation
Hx. Xie et A. Bondeson, INFLUENCE OF PARALLEL VISCOSITY ON TEARING MODE-STABILITY, Physics of plasmas, 2(9), 1995, pp. 3335-3340
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physics of plasmas → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070664X
Volume
2
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3335 - 3340
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-664X(1995)2:9<3335:IOPVOT>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The influence of parallel viscosity on the linear stability of tearing modes is analyzed. The parallel viscosity is introduced as a fluid ap proximation of ion Landau damping. Solution of the resistive layer equ ations shows that the toroidal stabilization resulting from favorable averaged curvature is rather robust and is only weakly reduced by the parallel viscosity. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.