University of Wisconsin Fusion Design Memos (UWFDM)

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The UWFDM series of technical reports details the research of the Fusion Technology Institute from 1971 to the present. Over 800 authors have contributed more than 56000 pages to the 1300 reports. Nearly all are online.

Publications

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UWFDM-232   Description of Response of Materials to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation - Part III: Response Modification by Intermediate Gaseous Layers; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977. (72 pages, 2.5 MB)

UWFDM-287   Dynamics of Newtonian Annular Jets; D.D. Paul, January 1979 [M.S. thesis]. (72 pages, 15 MB)

UWFDM-317   A Brief Summary of Different Tritium Sources for a Tritiumless Hybrid Reactor; G.A. Moses, October 1979. (72 pages, 3.1 MB)

UWFDM-1129   Final Report for the Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical-Issue Scoping Study; J.F. Santarius, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, C.N. Nguyen, S.V. Ryzhkov, M.D. Stubna, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, March 2000. (72 pages, 2.4 MB) [more]

UWFDM-101   Cavity Formation in Aluminum Irradiated with Aluminum Ions; Mark Lauren Sundquist, December 1974 [Ph.D. thesis]. (72 pages, 2.9 MB)

UWFDM-60   The Effects of Sputtering and Blistering on the UWCTR First Wall; R.G. Brown, May 1973. (71 pages, 4.6 MB)

UWFDM-324   On the Performance of Fuel Elements Enriched in the SOLASE-H Hybrid Reactor; R.M. Lewis, P.R. Schwab, and W.G. Wolfer, February 1980. (71 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-401   Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for a Fusion-Fission Hybrid System: SOLASE-H; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (71 pages, 2.5 MB)

UWFDM-59   Irradiation Effects to Insulators and Their Application to UWCTR; P.A. Sanger, March 23, 1973. (70 pages, 3.8 MB)

UWFDM-385   WITAMIR-I Neutronics - Papers Presented in 1980 on Tandem Mirror Reactor Central Cell Neutronics; R.T. Perry and C.W. Maynard, October 1980. (70 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-668   Time Dependent Studies of a Tandem Mirror with Thermal Barriers; E. Montalvo and G.A. Emmert, November 1985 [to be published in Nuclear Fusion]. (70 pages, 2.8 MB)

UWFDM-716   Reliability Analysis of Phaedrus; Yoichi Watanabe, January 1987. (70 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-148   Study of RF and Neutral Beam Heating of Large Tokamaks; J.E. Scharer, R.W. Conn, and D.T. Blackfield, December 1975. (69 pages, 2.8 MB)

UWFDM-502   A Self-Consistent ECRH Ray Tracing Calculation for a Tandem Mirror Transport Code; D.G. Braun and G.A. Emmert, April 1983. (69 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-606   DKR-STABLE: A Code Which Calculates Stable Isotope Concentrations Using the Linear Chain Method; A. White and W.F. Vogelsang, November 1984. (69 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-752   Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility Studies: Progress Report for the Period November 1, 1986 to October 31, 1987; B. Badger, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, O. Yasar, January 1988. (69 pages, 2.9 MB)

UWFDM-909   Computer Modeling of ICF Target Chamber Phenomena; G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, January 1993 (revised June 1993)  [submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams]. (69 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-200   Calibration of the Fully Dynamic Rate Theory Using the Computer Code TRANSWELL; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1977. (68 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-532   A Preliminary Fusion Availability Data Base; Z. Musicki and C.W. Maynard, February 1984. (68 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-633   Review of Failure Criteria for Thin Wall Structures in a High Heat Flux Environment; Bruce B. Glasgow, March 1985. (67 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-819   An Overview of Target Chamber Design and Analysis for the Light Ion Beam Laboratory Microfusion Facility (Annual Report to Sandia National Laboratories for Work Performed 10/1/88 - 9/31/89); R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, J.W. Powers, H.Y. Khater, M.E. Sawan, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, J.S. Lipschultz, February 1990. (66 pages, 3.2 MB)

UWFDM-931   NLTERT - A Code for Computing the Radiative Properties of Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1993. (66 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-241   Defect Profile Calculations in an Ion Bombarded Foil; J.B. Whitley and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977 (revised August 1984). (65 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-62   Irradiation Induced Strengthening in the UWCTR Blanket; R. Brown, March 1973. (64 pages, 4.1 MB)

UWFDM-209   Validation Study of UNIVAC-1110 Version of the CTR-PMCS-Nuclear Data Library & Codes Package; Y. Gohar, C.W. Maynard, and T. Wu, June 1977. (64 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-231   Intense Sources of Fast Neutrons; H. Barschall, March 1978 [Ann. Rev. Nuclear Part. Sci. 28 (1978) 207]. (64 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-435   The Effects of Neutron and Gamma Radiation Fields on the Electrical Breakdown Properties of Liquid and Gaseous Helium in Fusion Reactor Superconducting Magnet Systems; L.J. Perkins, September 1983. (64 pages, 2.7 MB)

UWFDM-945   Theoretical Diagnostic Analysis of K-alpha Emission Spectra Obtained in PBFA-II Lithium Beam Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, March 1994. (64 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-3   Computational Techniques for Neutronics and Photonics Calculations for Fusion Reactor Blankets and Magnet Shields; M. Abdou and C.W. Maynard, January 1972. (63 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-256   Nucleonic Design for a Compact Tokamak Fusion Reactor Blanket and Shield; E.T. Cheng, C.W. Maynard, W.F. Vogelsang, and A.C. Klein, August 1978 [Nucl. Tech. 45, 77 (1979)]. (63 pages, 2.8 MB)

UWFDM-402   Higher Order Sensitivity Theory and Nonlinear Optimization in Fusion Neutronics Studies; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (63 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-971   Preparation of Kilogram Quantities of the 83 a/o Lead - 17 a/o Lithium Eutectic Alloy; L.S. Nelson, J.D. Krueger, M.L. Corradini, June 1995. (63 pages, 38 MB)

UWFDM-1002   Numerical Simulation of High Energy Density Plasmas in KALIF Beam-Target Interaction Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, December 1995. (63 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-533   Parametric Survey of Microfireball Calculations for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility Design; M. Uesaka and G.A. Moses, August 1983. (62 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-1044   Environmental and Energy Analysis of the Refeed Option of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride; Scott W. White, February 1997. (62 pages, 2.7 MB)

UWFDM-1049   The Vibration of Perforated Hemispherical Shells; M.A. Sprague, August 1997 [B.S. thesis]. (62 pages, 3.0 MB)

UWFDM-149   Radiation Damage: The Second Most Serious Obstacle to Commercialization of Fusion Power; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1975 [published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors, Gatlinburg TN, 1-3 October 1975]. (61 pages, 2.8 MB)

UWFDM-63   Transmutation Effects in Nuclear Reactors; R. Lott, March 1973. (60 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-131   A Plan for Obtaining Timely Neutron Radiation Damage Information for Experimental Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, H.H. Barschall, J. Davis, and J.L. Straalsund, June 27, 1975. (60 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-707   Radiological Dose Calculations for the Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, October 1986 [Fus. Tech. 13 (May 1988) 594]. (60 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-1013   An Investigation of the Opacity of High-Z Mixtures; Ping Wang and J.J. MacFarlane, May 1996. (60 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-1074   Atomic, Radiation, and Hydrodynamics Modeling in Support of the Sandia Light Ion Beam Program; D.H. Cohen, H.K. Chung, P. Wang, J.J. MacFarlane, May 1998. (60 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-1212   Studies of Metal Combustion; Lloyd S. Nelson, Paul W. Brooks, Riccardo Bonazza and Michael L. Corradini, March 2002. (60 pages, 5.6 MB)

UWFDM-106   Parametric Studies of Driven Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, W.A. Houlberg, and J. Kesner, June 28, 1974. (59 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-282   The Response of Stainless Steel to the Pellet Debris in a Laser Fusion Reactor; T. McCarville, A.M. Hassanein, and G.L. Kulcinski, December 1978 [5th International SMiRT Conference, Berlin, Vol. N., P.N. 2.5/4, 1979]. (59 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-1332   Time-Dependent Integral Neutron Transport for Inertial Confinement Fusion; C.S. Aplin and D.L. Henderson, August 2007. (59 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-180   Fully Dynamic Rate Theory (FDRT) Simulation of Radiation Induced Swelling of Metals; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (58 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-266   Three-Dimensional Neutronics Analysis of the SOLASE-H Laser Reactor Fissile-Enrichment-Fuel-Factory; M.M.H. Ragheb, M.Z. Youssef, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, and C.W. Maynard, November 1978. (58 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-331   14 MeV d,t Sources; H.H. Barschall, November 1979 [chapter in "Neutron Sources", Pergamon Press, 1983]. (58 pages, 3.3 MB)

UWFDM-479   User's Manual for ``HERAD'' - ``Heterogeneous Radiation Damage'' Monte Carlo Computer Code; H. Attaya and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1982. (58 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-534   Comparison of Two-Temperature and Multifrequency Group Models of Radiative Transfer - Applied to Microfireball Dynamics in Light Ion Fusion Target Chambers; M. Uesaka and G.A. Moses, August 1983. (58 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-567   RAPTOR: A Computer Code to Calculate the Transport of Activation Products in Fusion Reactors; A.C. Klein and W.F. Vogelsang, February 1984. (58 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-910   Numerical Simulation of High Energy Density Plasmas in Support of KALIF Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, D.L. Henderson, O. Yasar, January 1993. (58 pages, 850 kB)

UWFDM-136   Impurity Effects on Plasma Performance in Two Component Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, M. Khelladi, and J. Kesner, October 1975 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (57 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-566   A Kinetic Model for Divertors and Pumped Limiters; A.W. Bailey and G.A. Emmert, February 1984 (revised August 1984)  [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (57 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-722   SOAR: Space Orbiting Advanced Fusion Power Reactor; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J.W. Johnson, T.E. Luzzi, C.W. Maynard, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, September 1987. (57 pages, 4.0 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1061   Development of a Time-Dependent View Factor Code for Studying Radiation Symmetry in ICF Hohlraums; J.J. MacFarlane, February 1998. (57 pages, 919 kB)

UWFDM-325   Preliminary Information on the University of Wisconsin Tandem Mirror Reactor Design; B. Badger, G.L. Kulcinski, L.L. Lao, D.C. Larbalestier, E. Larsen, L-P. Mai, J. Beyer, J.D. Callen, R.W. Conn, G.A. Emmert, S. Grotz, S. Hong, J. Kesner, T.K. Mau, C.W. Maynard, I. Ojalvo, K. Okula, M. Ortman, R.T. Perry, J. Santarius, J. Scharer, K. Shaing, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, A. White, and P. Wilkes, November 1979. (56 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-464   MIXERG - An Equation of State and Opacity Computer Code; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, March 1982 [Comm. Physics Communications 28 405 (1983)]. (56 pages, 4.2 MB)

UWFDM-799   Possibilities for Breakeven and Ignition of D-3He Fusion Fuel in a Near Term Tokamak; G.A. Emmert, L. El-Guebaly, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, J.E. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, R. Klingelhoefer, May 1989 [Published in Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 29, No. 9 (1989), pp. 1427-1448]. (56 pages, 2.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-852   Space Propulsion by Fusion in a Magnetic Dipole; E. Teller, A.J. Glass, T.K. Fowler, A. Hasegawa, J.F. Santarius, April 1991 [presented at the First International A.D. Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow, USSR, 27-31 May 1991. Also published as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Report UCRL-JC-106807, and published in Fusion Technology, V. 22, August 1992, pp. 82-97]. (56 pages, 4.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-942   ATBASE User's Guide; P. Wang, December 1993. (56 pages, 602 kB)

UWFDM-1230   The Release of Drops of Molten Ferrosilicon and Silicon into Water: Pressure Transients Generated During Triggered Steam Explosions; L.S. Nelson, P.W. Brooks, R. Bonazza, M.L. Corradini, K. Hildal, November 2004. (56 pages, 19 MB) [more]

UWFDM-577   A Pressure-Gradient-Driven Tokamak ``Resistive MHD'' Instability in the Banana-Plateau Collisionality Regime; J.D. Callen and K.C. Shaing, August 1984 (revised November 1984)  [Physics of Fluids 28, 1845 (1985)]. (55 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-601   Modification of Transverse Invariants; K.J. O'Brien and G.A. Moses, October 1984. (55 pages, 2.7 MB)

UWFDM-1261   Net Energy Balance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Renewable Energy Storage Systems; P.L. Denholm and G.L. Kulcinski, June 2003 [also Energy Center of Wisconsin Research Report 223-1, 2003]. (55 pages, 937 kB)

UWFDM-120   A Fusion Design Study of Non-Mobile Blankets with Low Lithium and Tritium Inventories; M.A. Abdou, C.W. Maynard, and L.J. Wittenberg, November 1, 1974. (54 pages, 2.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-308   A Survey of Fusion-Fission System Designs and Nuclear Analysis; M.Z. Youssef and R.W. Conn, June 1979. (54 pages, 2.3 MB)

UWFDM-312   Correlation of Radiation Creep Theory with Experimental Evidence; W.G. Wolfer, May 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 90, 175-192 (1980)]. (54 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-322   First Wall Mechanical Design for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, December 1979. (54 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-462   An Overview of TASKA - A Tandem Mirror Fusion Engineering Facility; G.L. Kulcinski and the Design Groups of University of Wisconsin, Fusion Power Associates, and Kernforschungzentrum Karlsruhe, March 15, 1982. (54 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-476   Bubble Screen Shielding of Water Pressure Waves Emitted by a Harmonically Pulsating Vessel; K.J. O'Brien and G.A. Moses, July 1982. (54 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-755   Commercial Attractiveness of D-He3 Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, February 1988. (54 pages, 4.6 MB)

UWFDM-169   The Influence of Design Variations on CTR Blanket Neutronic Performance Using Variational Techniques; E. Cheng and R.W. Conn, June 1976 [accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-494   Surface Melting and Evaporation During Plasma Disruptions in Magnetic Fusion Reactors; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [Nuclear Engr. and Design 1, 307 (1984)]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-646   Availability Analysis of Fusion Reactor Plants with Degraded States; Y. Watanabe, August 1985. (53 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-714   DKR-ICF: A Radioactivity and Dose Rate Calculation Code Package (Volume 1); Qingming Wang, Osman Yasar, Douglass L. Henderson, November 1986 (revised December 1994). (53 pages, 2.4 MB)

UWFDM-158   Magnet Design of Toroidal Field Coils for the UWMAK-Tokamak Systems; R.W. Boom, R.W. Moses, Jr., and W.C. Young, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (52 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-195   Laser Fusion Hydrodynamics Calculations; G.A. Moses, February 1977 [Nuclear Science and Engineering 64, 49 (1977)]. (52 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-215   Radiation Transport; G. Magelssen, July 1977. (52 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-307   MFP - A Calculation of Radiation Mean Free Paths, Ionization and Internal Energies in Noble Gases; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, May 1979. (52 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-750   IONMIX - A Code for Computing the Equation of State and Radiative Properties of LTE and Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1987 [Comp. Phys. Commun. 56 (1989) 259]. (52 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-260   Plasma Parametric Studies and Potential Applications of Driven Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn, September 1978. (51 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-276   ACTEN: A Computer Program to Calculate the Reaction Rate, the Rate of Energy Deposited and the Power Multiplication in a Fusion Blanket Using the Reaction Q Values; M. Youssef, December 1978. (51 pages, 2.2 MB)

UWFDM-456   Choice of First Wall Material in the Light Ion Beam Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, and K.J. Lee, February 1982. (51 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-527   Progress in Fusion Research, 1978-1982, Technical Summary; B. Badger, M.L. Corradini, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, E.G. Lovell, C.W. Maynard, G.A. Moses, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, J. Santarius, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, S.W. Van Sciver, W.F. Vogelsang, and W.G. Wolfer, April 1983 (revised September 1983). (51 pages, 3.3 MB)

UWFDM-943   Plasma Spectral Diagnostic Analyses in Support of KALIF Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, January 1994. (51 pages, 992 kB)

UWFDM-1070   ALARA: Analytic and Laplacian Adaptive Radioactivity Analysis: A Complete Package for Analysis of Induced Activation - Volume I, Technical Manual; Paul P.H. Wilson and Douglass L. Henderson, January 1998. (51 pages, 638 kB)

UWFDM-1071   ALARA: Analytic and Laplacian Adaptive Radioactivity Analysis: A Complete Package for Analysis of Induced Activation - Volume II, Users' Guide; Paul P.H. Wilson and Douglass L. Henderson, January 1998. (51 pages, 568 kB)

UWFDM-309   Implementation Considerations of Coupling Dedicated Fissile and Fusile Production Fusion and Fission Reactors; M. Ragheb, August 1979. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-341   Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors Based on the Gas Protection Concept; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, and R.R. Peterson, January 1980. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-382   TSTRESS - A Transient Stress Computer Code; R.R. Peterson, R.D. Watson, W.G. Wolfer, and G.A. Moses, December 1980. (50 pages, 1.7 MB)

UWFDM-599   The Discrete Cones Method for Two-Dimensional Neutron Transport Computation in General Media; Yoichi Watanabe and Charles W. Maynard, October 1984. (50 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-822   A Model for Computing Radiation Transport in Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and G.A. Moses, February 1990. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-960   Interactions Between an Organic Coolant and Drops of Molten Lithium; L.S. Nelson, J.D. Krueger, M.L. Corradini, June 1994. (50 pages, 9.0 MB)

UWFDM-172   Uniformity of Illumination of Spherical Laser Fusion Targets; J.E. Howard, August 20, 1976. (49 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-289   A Separation Method for the Transport Equation and Sensitivity Theory in Fusion-Fission Hybrid Analysis; M. Youssef, February 1979. (49 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-796   Helium Transport in Flat Vented Divertors and Limiters; H.H. Abou-gabal and G.A. Emmert, July 1989. (49 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-845   R-MHD: An Adaptive-Grid Radiation-Magnetohydrodynamics Computer Code; Osman Yasar and Gregory A. Moses, January 1991. (49 pages, 1.4 MB)


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