Abstract: Effects of external current drive on instability of double tearing mode in Hall MHD equations are numerically investigated. It shows that double tearing mode can be suppressed by antiparallel external current drive at x-point of tearing mode magnetic islands. Periodic external current drive controls island width under a threshold and stabilizes double tearing mode. With increasing period depression effect becomes worse. If frequency, density and width of periodic external current drive are adopted suitably, depression effect becomes better.

Key words: current drive, tearing mode, MHD