Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
2008-12-17
Physics of Plasmas, Vol 16, Art. No. 042102, 2009
Physics
Plasma Physics
Accepted to to published in Phys. Plasmas
Scientific paper
The effects of line-tying on resistive tearing instability in slab geometry is studied within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD).\citep{KadomtsevP1974,Strauss1976} It is found that line-tying has a stabilizing effect. The tearing mode is stabilized when the system length $L$ is shorter than a critical length $L_{c}$, which is independent of the resistivity $\eta$. When $L$ is not too much longer than $L_{c}$, the growthrate $\gamma$ is proportional to $\eta$ . When $L$ is sufficiently long, the tearing mode scaling $\gamma\sim\eta^{3/5}$ is recovered. The transition from $\gamma\sim\eta$ to $\gamma\sim\eta^{3/5}$ occurs at a transition length $L_{t}\sim\eta^{-2/5}$.
Huang Yi-Min
Zweibel Ellen G.
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