Effect of dissipation due to firehose instability on half-jet flow of a collisionless plasma
Consideration of the effect of collisionless dissipation, due to firehose instability, on a two-dimensional steady flow. The discussion is limited to aligned and perturbation flow. It is shown that the dissipation terms are proportional to the fluctuation energy density in the main flow, and that they are nonlinearly related to other quantities through the growth rate parameter of instability.