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-967   Non-Lunar 3He Resources; L.J. Wittenberg, July 1994 (revised July 1994)  [presented at the Second Wisconsin Symposium on Helium-3 and Fusion Power, 19-21 July 1993, Madison WI]. (30 pages, 600 kB)

UWFDM-976   1994 Summary Report for ITER Design Task D4. Shielding 3D Analysis. Afterheat Analysis for the Whole Machine and Cryostat Area. Part A: Neutronics and Shielding; M.E. Sawan, L.A. El-Guebaly, H.Y. Khater, January 1995. (30 pages, 859 kB)

UWFDM-1007   Summary Report on the Neutronics Activities Performed by the U.S. Home Team as Part of the Blanket Design Task D202 in 1995; M.E. Sawan, H.Y. Khater, L.A. El-Guebaly, March 1996. (30 pages, 665 kB)

UWFDM-113   Comparative Study of Radioactivity and Afterheat in Several Fusion Reactor Blanket Designs; R.W. Conn, T.Y. Sung, and M.A. Abdou, October 1974. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-132   The Need for Neutron Radiation Damage Information from the Viewpoint of the Fusion Reactor Designer; G.L. Kulcinski, June 27, 1975 [prepared for the International Conference on Radiation Test Facilities for the CTR Surface and Materials Program, Argonne National Laboratory, 15-18 July 1975]. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-254   Formulation of Constitutive Laws for Deformation During Irradiation; W. Wolfer, July 1978 [ASTM-STP-683, 581-597 (1979)]. (29 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-346   Effective Time and Resonance Width in Cyclotron Resonance Heating; J.E. Howard, May 1980. (29 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-370   Evaporation Under Intense Energy Deposition; L.L. Loebel and W.G. Wolfer, August 1980. (29 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-669   Preparation of Ion-Irradiated Foils for Cross-Section Analysis; S.J. Zinkle and R.L. Sindelar, December 1985. (29 pages, 6.8 MB)

UWFDM-784   The Effect of Tempering and Aging on a Low Activation Martensitic Steel; R.D. Griffin, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, D.S. Gelles, January 1989. (29 pages, 6.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-820   Projected Ranges of Energetic Ions in Solids; J.H. Liang and G.L. Kulcinski, August 1990 [Published in J. Nucl. Matls. 183/3 (August 1991), pp. 202-215]. (29 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-901   Stress-Enhanced Swelling: Mechanisms and Implications for Fusion Reactors; M.H. Hassan, J.P. Blanchard, G.L. Kulcinski, May 1992. (29 pages, 634 kB)

UWFDM-930   MHD, Heat Transfer and Stress Analysis for the ITER Self-Cooled Blanket Design; X.R. Wang, E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1993. (29 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-973   Numerical Simulation of Target Microexplosion Dynamics for the LIBRA-SP Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, P. Wang, M.E. Sawan, R.R. Peterson, December 1994. (29 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-977   Summary Report for ITER Design Task D10: Updating the Activation Code RACC for ITER Design Analysis; Qingming Wang and D.L. Henderson, January 1995 (revised April 1995). (29 pages, 737 kB)

UWFDM-1028   Preliminary Analysis of Aluminum K-alpha Satellite Spectra Obtained in KALIF Applied-B Diode Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, July 1996. (29 pages, 810 kB)

UWFDM-1271   Evolution of Clearance Standards and Implications for Radwaste Management of Fusion Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Paige, and the ARIES and Z-Pinch Teams, July 2005 (revised August 2005)  [ Fusion Science and Technology, 49 (2006) 62-73]. (29 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-1338   Contributon Theory for Shielding Analysis; Marat Seydaliev and D.L. Henderson, July 2008. (29 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-30   The Preliminary Report on a Three Dimensional Magnetic Field Code - MAFCO (The Modification and Application); T.F. Yang, October 1972. (28 pages, 1.7 MB)

UWFDM-103   Thermalization of an Energetic Heavy Ion in Multispecies Plasmas; W.A. Houlberg, May 1974. (28 pages, 15 MB)

UWFDM-177   The University of Wisconsin Contribution to the BCC Ion Correlation Experiment on Molybdenum; H.V. Smith, Jr., K.Y. Liou, G.L. Kulcinski, and P. Wilkes, October 1976. (28 pages, 5.2 MB)

UWFDM-198   Thermonuclear Burn Characteristics of Compressed DT Pellets; Gregory A. Moses, February 1977. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-271   Phase Stability Under Irradiation - A Review of Theory and Experiment; P. Wilkes, November 1978. (28 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-405   An Analytical Model for the Motion and Radiative Response of a Low Density Inertial Confinement Fusion Buffer Gas; T.J. McCarville, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.A. Moses, January 1981. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-477   WHISTEL: A Stellarator Transport Code; G.A. Emmert, K.J. Lee, and A. Bailey, September 1982. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-486   Frequency Dependent X-Ray Fluences from a High Yield Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Explosion in a Gas Filled Chamber; G.A. Moses, September 1982. (28 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-490   Variational Calculation of the Trapping Rate in Thermal Barriers; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, October 1982. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-530   Low Mode Number Stability of a Quadrupole Tandem Mirror; M.W. Phillips and J.D. Callen, July 1983. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-537   Radiative Heat Transfer in Self-Shielding Vapor Layer During Tokamak Disruptions; R.R. Peterson, August 1983. (28 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-558   14-MeV Neutron Radiation-Induced Microhardness Changes in Copper Alloys; S.J. Zinkle and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1983 [presented at the ASTM Conference on Subsized Specimens, Albuquerque, NM, September 23, 1983]. (28 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-649   Modeling of Lithium-Lead/Water Interactions in a Fusion Reactor Design: Part II. Modeling Improvements; J.P. Herzog, M.L. Corradini, September 1985. (28 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-667   Microstructural Modification of 2-1/4 Cr-1 Mo Steel by Irradiation with 14 MeV Nickel Ions; R.L. Sindelar, J.J. Kai, D.L. Plumton, R.A. Dodd and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1985 [presented at the 1985 TMS-AIME Fall Meeting, 13-17 October 1985, Toronto, Ontario]. (28 pages, 8.6 MB)

UWFDM-685   Key Materials Issues for Near Term Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, J.M. Dupouy and F. Ishino, April 1986 [Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-17 April 1986, Chicago, IL]. (28 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-824   U.S. Aqueous Salt Blanket for ITER; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.E. Sawan, L.J. Wittenberg, G.L. Kulcinski, J.P. Blanchard, E.A. Mogahed, February 1990 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 13 (1990) 33-4]. (28 pages, 4.2 MB)

UWFDM-858   Non-LTE Radiative Transfer with Lambda-Acceleration: Convergence Properties Using Exact Full and Diagonal Lambda-Operators; J.J. MacFarlane, August 1991 [Astronomy and Astrophysics 264 (1992) 153]. (28 pages, 746 kB)

UWFDM-1094   X-1 Experiment Chamber Design and Analysis: Progress Report for the Period August 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998; R.R. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, E.A. Mogahed, H.Y. Khater, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Cousseau, J.F. Santarius, K. Olson, T. Utschig, D.L. Henderson, M.L. Corradini, R.L. Engelstad, G.A. Moses, October 1998. (28 pages, 853 kB)

UWFDM-1408   3-D Modeling of Neutron Wall Loading, Tritium Breeding Ratio, and Nuclear Heating Distribution for ARIES-ACT-DCLL Design; A. Jaber, L. El-Guebaly, L. Mynsberge, April 2012. (28 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-44   Optimization Considerations in the Design of a Tokamak Reactor; D. Klein, G. Emmert, T. Yang, April 1973. (27 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-105   Conceptual Design Considerations for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; R.W. Conn and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1974 [(The Netherlands Meeting)]. (27 pages, 954 kB)

UWFDM-107   An Optimal Multistage Sequential Monte Carlo Method; M.M.H. Ragheb, C.W. Maynard, and R.W. Conn, August 1974. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-128   Heat Transfer and Neutronics of ISSEC and Partial ISSEC Blanket Designs; D.K. Sze and R.W. Conn, June 1975. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-189   A High Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum Facility for Heavy Ion Simulation of Neutron Radiation Damage to Potential Reactor Materials; H.V. Smith, Jr. and R.G. Lott, January 1977. (27 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-226   Neutral Beam Divergence Due to Imperfect Magnetic Shielding; J.R. Conrad, November 1977. (27 pages, 989 kB)

UWFDM-304   Discrete Transfer Cross Section Expansion for Time Dependent Neutron Transport; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, October 1978 (revised January 1979)  [Nuc. Sci. and Engr. 71, 100 (1979)]. January 1979)]. (27 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-315   Blast Wave Calculations in Argon Cavity Gas for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, October 1979. (27 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-347   The Role of Gas Pressure and Lateral Stress on Blistering; W.G. Wolfer, April 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 93 & 94, 713-730 (1980)]. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-437   Fusion Materials - Adapting to Realistic Reactor Environments; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1981 [presented at 3rd Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 5-16, 1981]. (27 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-473   A Theoretical Model for Hot Plasma Flowing to a Wall With Recycling; A.W. Bailey and G.A. Emmert, May 1982 [to be published in J. of Nucl. Mater.]. (27 pages, 924 kB)

UWFDM-484   A Model for the Evolution of Network Dislocation Density in Irradiated Metals; F.A. Garner and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [ASTM-STP-782, 1073-1087 (1982)]. (27 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-570   Three-Dimensional Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for PBFA-II; M.E. Sawan, February 1984. (27 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-715   Twisted Coil Geometry; P.L. Walstrom, December 1986. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-848   Numerical Simulation of Emission Spectra from Ion Beam-Heated Aluminum Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, January 1991 [Lasers &\ Part. Beams 10 (1992) 349]. (27 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-1040   Pre-formed Plasma Channels for Heavy Ion Transport in IFE Reactors: Final Report for Contract \#46053410; R.R. Peterson and M.E. Sawan, February 1997. (27 pages, 236 kB)

UWFDM-1066   ROSAT and Hipparcos Observations of Isolated Pre-Main-Sequence Stars Near HD 98800; Eric L.N. Jensen, David H. Cohen, Ralph Neuhaeuser, March 1998 [to appear in the Astronomical Journal, June 1998]. (27 pages, 557 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1090   X-1 Experiment Chamber Design and Analysis: 1998 Annual Report to Sandia National Laboratories; R.R. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, E.A. Mogahed, H.Y. Khater, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Cousseau, J.F. Santarius, K. Olson, T. Utschig, D.L. Henderson, M.L. Corradini, R.L. Engelstad, G.A. Moses, December 1998. (27 pages, 604 kB)

UWFDM-1146   Explorations of Options for Radiation Transport in Draco; Paul P.H. Wilson and Gregory A. Moses, December 2000. (27 pages, 225 kB)

UWFDM-1277   Monte Carlo Charged Particle Tracking and Energy Deposition on a Lagrangian Mesh; J. Yuan, G.A. Moses and P.W. McKenty, August 2005 [submitted to Physical Review E]. (27 pages, 907 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1296   Recent Developments in Environmental Aspects of D-3He Fueled Fusion Devices; Laila El-Guebaly and Massimo Zucchetti, October 2006 (revised April 2008)  [published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 82, 4 (2007) 351-361]. (27 pages, 630 kB) [more]

UWFDM-252   Effects of Bombarding Ions on the Void Swelling Profile in Nickel; J.B. Whitley, G.L. Kulcinski, H.V. Smith, Jr., and P. Wilkes, July 1978 [ASTM-STP-683, 125 (1979)]. (26 pages, 4.9 MB)

UWFDM-265   Monte Carlo Statistical Weighting Methods for External-Source-Driven Multiplying Systems; M. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, October 1978 [Proc. of the ANS Topical Mtg. on Computational Methods in Nuclear Engr., April 1979, Williamsburg, VA, 11, 7-11 (1979)]. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-279   Tritium and Fissile Fuel Exchange Between Fusion Hybrids, Fission Power Reactors, and Tritium Production Reactors; M.Z. Youssef, R.W. Conn, W.F. Vogelsang, April 1979. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-438   Radiation Shielding of Heavy Ion Beam Focussing Magnets in HIBALL; M.E. Sawan, W.F. Vogelsang, and D.K. Sze, August 1981 [Trans. ANS 39 (1981) 777]. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-493   Simulation of Rapid Heating in Fusion Reactor First Walls Using the Green's Function; A.M. Hassanein and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1982 [J. of Heat Transfer 106, 483 (1984)]. (26 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-583   A Comparison of Depth-Dependent Microstructures of Ion-Irradiated 316-Type Stainless Steels; R.L. Sindelar, R.A. Dodd and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1984 [presented at the 12th International Symposium on the Effects of Radiation on Materials, Williamsburg, VA, June 18-20, 1984]. (26 pages, 4.2 MB)

UWFDM-907   Relativistic Configuration Interaction Calculations of K-alpha Satellite Properties for Aluminum Ions; Ping Wang, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, September 1992 [submitted to Phys. Rev]. (26 pages, 377 kB)

UWFDM-1060   Numerical Simulations of Gold-Coated Aluminum Foils Heated by the KALIF Applied-B Diode Proton Beam; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, D.H. Cohen, December 1997. (26 pages, 491 kB)

UWFDM-1101   Computer Modeling for Lithium Safety in Fusion Systems: LINT and MELCOR; T.T. Utschig and M.L. Corradini, June 1999. (26 pages, 466 kB)

UWFDM-1370   Atomic and Molecular Effects on Spherically Convergent Ion Flow II: Multiple Molecular Species; G.A. Emmert and J.F. Santarius, July 2009 [published in Physics of Plasmas 17, 013503 (2010)]. (26 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-1   Engineering and Environmental Aspects of Fusion Reactors; H.K. Forsen, December 1971. (25 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-41   Thermal and Mechanical Design Considerations for Lithium-Cooled Tokamak Reactor Blankets; D.K. Sze, W.E. Stewart, March 1973. (25 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-49   The Calculation and Parametric Study of the Synchrotron Radiation Loss for Tokamak Reactors; T.F. Yang, H.K. Forsen, G.A. Emmert, July 1973. (25 pages, 976 kB)

UWFDM-82   Fusion Power - An Assessment of Its Potential Impact in the USA; G.L. Kulcinski, June 1974 [published in Energy Policy, June 1974]. (25 pages, 2.0 MB)

UWFDM-117   Compatibility of Stainless Steels with Oxygen-Contaminated Helium; R.E. Westerman, October 1974. (25 pages, 1.5 MB)

UWFDM-151   A Gas-Carried Li2O Cooling-Breeding Fusion Reactor Blanket Concept; D.K. Sze, E.M. Larsen, E.T. Cheng, and R.G. Clemmer, July 1975. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-153   Plasma Modeling and First Wall Interaction Phenomena in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and J. Kesner, February 1976 [published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 63 (1976) 1-14]. (25 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-159   A Novel Method for Studying Damage Rate Effects in Ion Bombarded Nickel; J.B. Whitley, P. Wilkes, and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1976. (25 pages, 6.2 MB)

UWFDM-163   Drift Surfaces in Linear and Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields; J.E. Howard, June 1976. (25 pages, 971 kB)

UWFDM-168   A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design Study - UWMAK-III; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, R.G. Clemmer, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, August 1976 [Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Berchtesgaden, Federal Republic of Germany, 6-13 October 1976]. (25 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]

UWFDM-176   On the Stability of the Flow of Thin Liquid Lithium Films; J.E. Howard, October 1976. (25 pages, 960 kB)

UWFDM-208   Comparison of Liquid ISSECs: Li, Pb and Pb4Li for Use in Laser Fusion Reactors; H.I. Avci and G.L. Kulcinski, May 27, 1977. (25 pages, 970 kB)

UWFDM-210   Time Dependent Neutronics for Laser Fusion Blanket and Materials Analysis; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, June 1977. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-269   Non-Adiabatic Particle Motion in the Magnetotail; J.E. Howard, May 1979. (25 pages, 914 kB)

UWFDM-383   Solute Redistribution in Heavy-Ion Bombarded Copper Base Alloys; R.W. Knoll, P. Wilkes, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980. (25 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-387   On the Coefficient for Bulk Recombination of Vacancies and Interstitials; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, October 1980 [J. Nucl. Matls. 99, 117-123 (1981)]. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-455   Fireball Propagation in Preformed Plasma Channels in the Light Ion Beam Driven Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, K.J. Lee, and G.A. Moses, January 1982. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)

UWFDM-572   Target Material Activation Calculations for High Gain Light Ion Fusion Targets; D.L. Henderson, A.M. White and G.A. Moses, April 1984 (revised May 1987). (25 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-587   Ballooning Instabilities on a Magnetic Separatrix; W.X. Qu and J.D. Callen, September 1984. (25 pages, 881 kB)

UWFDM-682   Graphite First Wall Thermal Performance in ICF Reactors; H. Attaya, E. Lovell, R. Engelstad, R. Peterson, J. Liang, S. Abdel-Khalik, G. Moses and G. Kulcinski, April 1986 [Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-17 April 1986, Chicago, IL]. (25 pages, 997 kB)

UWFDM-696   The Effect of Edge Molecular Processes on Neutral Transport in the Tandem Mirror Halo Plasma; B.Q. Deng, G.A. Emmert, J.F. Santarius, July 1986. (25 pages, 895 kB)

UWFDM-751   AXISYS: A System of Computer Programs for Calculation of Magnetic Fields, Forces, Inductances, and Flux Lines for Collections of Coaxial Solenoid Elements; Peter Walstrom, January 1988. (25 pages, 1.3 MB)

UWFDM-826   Fusion Power from Lunar Resources; G.L. Kulcinski and H.H. Schmitt, October 1990 (revised September 1991)  [presented at the 41st Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Dresden, Germany, 6-12 October 1990. To be published in Fusion Technology]. (25 pages, 625 kB)

UWFDM-980   RACC-Pulse: A Version of the RACC Radioactivity Code for Pulsed/Intermittent Activation Analysis; Q. Wang and D.L. Henderson, May 1995. (25 pages, 756 kB)

UWFDM-1069   Development of Soft X-ray Tracer Diagnostics for Hohlraum Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, D.H. Cohen, P. Wang, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, C.A. Back, O.L. Landen, R.J. Leeper, R.E. Olson, T. Nash, April 1998. (25 pages, 481 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1157   Assessment of Impact of Tritium Removal and He-3 Recycling on Structure Damage Parameters in a D-D Fusion System; M.E. Sawan, S.J. Zinkle, J. Sheffield, August 2001. (25 pages, 269 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1375   Evaluation of Biological Dose for ARIES-CS and Comparison with Approximate Contact Dose Approach; A. Robinson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, May 2010. (25 pages, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-1414   Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Tritium Breeding Ratio, Nuclear Heating Distribution, and Neutron Wall Loading Profile for ARIES-ACT-1 (SiC/LiPb) Design; L. Mynsberge, A. Jaber, L. El-Guebaly, December 2012. (25 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-31   Lorentz Ionization of 20-200 keV Neutral Deuterium Beams; J.H. Kamperschroer, November 1972. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-125   Superconducting Toroidal Field Magnets for a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; J.W. Lue and R.W. Conn, May 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-187   Neutronics Studies of the Gas-Carried Li2O Cooling/Breeding Fusion Reactor Blanket and Shield; E.T. Cheng, T.Y. Sung, and D.K. Sze, February 1976. (24 pages, 1.1 MB)


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