Published September 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Tearing mode instability due to anomalous resistivity

  • 1. Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka (Japan)
  • 2. Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan). Research Inst. for Applied Mechanics

Description

Tearing mode instability in the presence of microscopic truculence is investigates. The effects of microscopic turbulence on tearing mode are taken as drags which are calculated by one-point renormalization method and mean-field approximation. These effects are reduced to effective diffusivities in reduced MHD equations. Using these equations, the stability analyses of the tearing mode are performed. It is shown that a finite amplitude of fluctuation enhances the growth rate of tearing mode. For very high values of turbulent diffusivities, marginally stable state exists. The effects of each turbulent diffusivity on mode stability are examined near marginal stability boundary. Parameter dependence of the resistive ballooning mode turbulence on tearing mode is analyzed as an example. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Reports of Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (Kyushu University)
Journal Issue
no.119
Journal Page Range
p. 61-74
ISSN
0023-6195

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Notes
20 refs., 19 figs., 1 tab.