
%0 Journal Article
%A Marinoff, GM 
%T Parallel Viscous Modification of the Resistive "Tearing" Instability in a Cartesian Model of the Hard-Core Pinch
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1971/04/01
%V 24
%N 4
%P 929-932
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH710929
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH710929 
%X There is continuing interest in the possibility that a diffuse pinch may be used to achieve plasma containment in the laboratory, and ultimately lead to a successful thermonuclear reactor. Such a system is likely to be stabilized against hydromagnetic modes by strong magnetic field shear, but the question of stability against resistive modes remains. In this note, a Cartesian model is adopted, and the influence of "parallel" viscosity (Stringer 1970) on the resistive "tearing" instability in the hard-core pinch is examined. Previously, purely resistive calculations of growth rates in this configuration have been reported by Hosking (1967) and Lister and Hosking (1970). 
