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Original Articles

Four fragments and a preview

Pages 547-555 | Received 03 Sep 2011, Accepted 11 Apr 2012, Published online: 29 May 2012
 

Abstract

I present discussion of four problems that I have been unable to solve during my career so far, in the hope that others will succeed where I have failed. I also discuss preliminary work on a model of mean-field electrodynamics that aims to show the difficulties with the ansatz at large magnetic Reynolds numbers.

Acknowledgements

I have been fortunate to have had a large number of talented collaborators, but there is no space to thank them all here. As far as my senior colleagues go, I wish to record my particular deep gratitude to Willem Malkus, Keith Moffatt, Nigel Weiss and Ed Spiegel. Among younger colleagues, I particularly wish to acknowledge Chris Jones, Dave Galloway, David Hughes, Edgar Knobloch, Steve Tobias and Alastair Rucklidge. Finally, I am indebted to Paul Roberts and Andrew Soward for inspiration and good advice over many years.

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