University of Wisconsin Fusion Design Memos (UWFDM)

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)

