Abstract
The Island Equilibrium and Transport (IslET) model is extended to allow for the effects of ion compressibility albeit for a constant electron temperature. The model describes fully relaxed, saturated, steady-state magnetic islands arising from the evolution of a tearing mode caused either by an instability or an externally imposed resonant perturbation. It assumes that the collision frequency lies in the semi-collisional regime. A salient new feature of the extended model is an equation describing the transport of parallel momentum. The model is applied to evaluate the drag exerted on a thin island by the emission of drift-acoustic waves.
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