Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-07-17
Phys.Plasmas 13 (2006) 092102
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Physics of Plasmas
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2336506
It is well known that the radial displacement of the $m=1$ internal kink mode in a periodic screw pinch has a steep jump at the resonant surface where $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{B}=0$. In a line-tied system, relevant to solar and astrophysical plasmas, the resonant surface is no longer a valid concept. It is then of interest to see how line-tying alters the aforementioned result for a periodic system. If the line-tied kink also produces a steep gradient, corresponding to a thin current layer, it may lead to strong resistive effects even with weak dissipation. Numerical solution of the eigenmode equations shows that the fastest growing kink mode in a line-tied system still possesses a jump in the radial displacement at the location coincident with the resonant surface of the fastest growing mode in the periodic counterpart. However, line-tying thickens the inner layer and slows down the growth rate. As the system length $L$ approaches infinity, both the inner layer thickness and the growth rate approach the periodic values. In the limit of small $\epsilon\sim B_{\phi}/B_{z}$, the critical length for instability $L_{c}\sim\epsilon^{-3}$. The relative increase in the inner layer thickness due to line-tying scales as $\epsilon^{-1}(L_{c}/L)^{2.5}$.
Huang Yi-Min
Sovinec Carl R.
Zweibel Ellen G.
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