Publications

ARIES-DB Design Issues; L.A. El-Guebaly, December 2009 [presented at the ARIES-Pathways Project Meeting, 15-16 December 2009, General Atomics, San Diego CA]. (14 pages, 555 kB)

ARIES Safety-Related Components and Nuclear Grade Requirements; L. El-Guebaly, L. Cadwallader, B. Merrill, December 2009 [presented at the ARIES-Pathways Project Meeting, 15-16 December 2009, General Atomics, San Diego CA]. (21 pages, 384 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1376   Peaking in SS Nuclear Parameters at a Water Interface; T.D. Bohm, M.E. Sawan, B. Smith, P.P.H. Wilson, December 2009. (17 pages, 1.5 MB)

Spatial and Energy Profiling of D-D Fusion Reactions in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Device; D.C. Donovan, D.R. Boris, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, November 2009 [presented at the APS-DPP Meeting, 2-6 November 2009, Atlanta GA]. (1 page, 4.1 MB)

Modeling ICF Spherical Implosion Instabilities in 3D with Exact Energy Conservation; M. Fatenejad, G.A. Moses, November 2009 [presented at the APS-DPP Meeting, 2-6 November 2009, Atlanta GA]. (1 page, 3.3 MB)

FENDL Benchmark Calculations in Preparation for Upgrade to FENDL-3; Mohamed Sawan and Tim Bohm, November 2009 [presented at the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) Meeting, 3-5 November 2009, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island NY]. (23 pages, 3.3 MB)

Construction of the Six Ion Gun Fusion Experiment; M.K. Michalak, B.J. Egle, October 2009 [presented at the 11th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 12-13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (1 page, 2.7 MB)

Performance Improvements of the UW IEC Device HELIOS for 3He-3He Fusion; G.E. Becerra and the UW IEC Group, October 2009 [presented at the 11th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 12-13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (1 page, 900 kB)

Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Reactor Liquid Cooled Ion Accelerating Grid Design; A. Seltzman, October 2009 [presented at the 11th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, 12-13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (1 page, 1.8 MB)

Experimental Benchmarking of FENDL-2.1 with Impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 Data; T.D. Bohm, M.E. Sawan, P. Wilson, P. Batistoni, R. Villari, October 2009 [presented at the 9th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 11-16 October 2009, Dalian, China]. (1 page, 1.6 MB) [more]

Advanced Fusion Fuels in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device; G.E. Becerra and the UW IEC Group, October 2009 [presented at the 2nd University of Wisconsin Energy Hub Conference, 16 October 2009, Madison WI]. (1 page, 1.4 MB)

Three-Dimensional Nuclear Analysis for the US Dual Coolant Lithium Lead ITER Test Blanket Module; M. Sawan, B. Smith, E. Marriott, P. Wilson, October 2009 [presented at the 9th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-9), 11-16 October 2009, Dalian, China]. (19 pages, 1.8 MB)

Acceleration Techniques for the Direct Use of CAD-Based Geometry in Fusion Neutronics Analysis; P.P.H. Wilson, T.J. Tautges, J.A. Kraftcheck, B.M. Smith, D.L. Henderson, October 2009 [presented at the 9th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-9), 11-16 October 2009, Dalian, China]. (29 pages, 1.4 MB) [more]

Progress in Understanding the Performance of IEC Devices at the University of Wisconsin; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, R.L. Bonomo, E.C. Alderson, G.E. Becerra, D.R. Boris, L. Campbell, D.C. Donovan, B.J. Egle, L.M. Garrison, M.K. Michalak, C.M. Schuff, S.J. Zenobia, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (18 pages, 4.3 MB)

Negative Ions in IEC Devices; D.R. Boris, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (20 pages, 1.4 MB)

UW-Madison IEC Laboratory Continuing Capacity Upgrades and Infrastructure Upgrades; R. Bonomo, E. Alderson, G. Becerra, D. Boris, L. Campbell, D. Donovan, B. Egle, G. Emmert, L. Garrison, G. Kulcinski, M. Michalak, J. Santarius, C. Schuff, S. Zenobia, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (24 pages, 909 kB)

Spatial and Energy Profiling of D-D Fusion Reactions in an IEC Fusion Device; D.C. Donovan, D.R. Boris, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (26 pages, 1.7 MB)

Overview of the UW Materials Irradiation Program; S.J. Zenobia and the UW IEC Group, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (19 pages, 4.3 MB)

Advances on the Six Ion Gun Fusion Experiment; B.J. Egle, M.K. Michalak, J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (21 pages, 3.0 MB)

A Campaign to Study Negative Ion and Fast Neutral Currents Produced by the IEC Device in a Variety of Configurations; E.C. Alderson, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (42 pages, 1.8 MB)

Exploration of IEC Device Operating Regimes; J.F. Santarius and G.A. Emmert, October 2009 [presented at the 11th U.S.-Japan Workshop on IEC Fusion, 12--13 October 2009, Madison WI]. (20 pages, 321 kB)

UWFDM-1374   Deuterium Anions in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Devices; D.R. Boris, E. Alderson, G. Becerra, D.C. Donovan, B. Egle, G.A. Emmert, L. Garrison, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, C. Schuff, S.J. Zenobia, September 2009 [published in Physical Review E, vol. 80, 036408 (2009)]. (21 pages, 2.4 MB)

Radiation Shielding Requirements for Magnets in Fusion Reactors; Mohamed Sawan, September 2009 [presented at the 4th Japanese-Mediterranean Workshop on Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Magnetic, Superconducting and Nano Materials (JAPMED'4), 17-20 September 2005, Cairo, Egypt]. (15 pages, 1.5 MB)

Direct Coupling of 3-D Neutronics with CAD Models Applied to Fusion Systems; M.E. Sawan, P.P.H. Wilson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, T. Bohm, B. Kiedrowski, A. Ibrahim, B. Smith, R. Slaybaugh, September 2009 [presented at the 18th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2008), 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (36 pages, 3.0 MB) [more]

Damage Production and Accumulation in SiC Structures in Inertial and Magnetic Fusion Systems; Mohamed Sawan, Nasr Ghoniem, Lance L. Snead, and Yutai Katoh, September 2009 [presented at the 14th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM-14), 6-11 September 2009, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan]. (1 page, 2.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1368   Assessment of Using the Surface Source Approach in 3-D Neutronics of Fusion Systems; T.D. Bohm, B. Smith, M.E. Sawan, P.P.H. Wilson, August 2009. (22 pages, 3.8 MB)

DCLL Thermal-Hydraulics; Edward Marriott, August 2009 [presented at the Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) meeting, 18-20 August 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles CA]. (12 pages, 526 kB)

Scoping Neutronics Analysis in Support of FDF Design Evolution; Mohamed Sawan, August 2009 [presented at the Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) meeting, 18-20 August 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles CA]. (17 pages, 265 kB)

Three-Dimensional Nuclear Analysis for the US DCLL TBM; M. Sawan, B. Smith, E. Marriott, P. Wilson, August 2009 [presented at the Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) meeting, 18-20 August 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles CA]. (22 pages, 2.1 MB)

Updated Tritium Breeding Requirement in Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF); Mohamed Sawan, Mohamed Abdou, August 2009 [presented at the Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) meeting, 18-20 August 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles CA]. (14 pages, 770 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1366   Novel Diagnostic Approaches to Characterizing the Performance of the Wisconsin Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Plasma; David R. Boris, July 2009 [Ph.D. thesis]. (221 pages, 6.5 MB)

UWFDM-1369   Atomic and Molecular Effects on Spherically Convergent Ion Flow I: Single Atomic Species; G.A. Emmert and J.F. Santarius, July 2009 [published in Physics of Plasmas 17, 013502 (2010)]. (23 pages, 1.6 MB)

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-1371   40 Years of Power Plant Studies: Brief Historical Overview and Future Trends; L.A. El-Guebaly, July 2009 [Proceedings of 3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology, July 13-15, 2009, Vienna, Austria. To be published by IAEA.]. (10 pages, 444 kB)

UWFDM-1372   Need for Online Adjustment of Tritium Bred in Blanket and Implications for ARIES Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly, S. Malang, and the ARIES Team, July 2009 [Proceedings of 3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology, July 13-15, 2009, Vienna, Austria. To be published by IAEA.]. (9 pages, 261 kB) [more]

Integrated Management Strategy for Fusion Activated Materials: US Position and Regulations; L.A. El-Guebaly and L. Cadwallader, July 2009 [presented at the 9th IAEA Technical Meeting on Fusion Power Plant Safety, 15-17 July 2009, Vienna, Austria]. (34 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]

Need for Online Adjustment of Tritium Bred in Blanket and Implications for ARIES Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly and S. Malang, July 2009 [presented at the 3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on First Generation of Fusion Power Plants - Design and Technology, 13-15 July 2009, Vienna, Austria]. (22 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1373   Integrated Management Strategy for Fusion Activated Materials: US Position and Regulations; L.A. El-Guebaly and L. Cadwallader, July 2009 [Proceedings of 9th IAEA Technical Meeting on Fusion Power Plant Safety, July 15-17, 2009, Vienna, Austria. To be published by IAEA.]. (9 pages, 316 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1364   3-D Assessment of Neutron Streaming through Inboard Assembly Gaps of ARIES Tokamak Power Plant; T.D. Bohm, L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, June 2009. (16 pages, 2.6 MB)

Surface Morphology of He+-Implanted Nano-Grain W Coatings for Fusion Reactor First-Wall Materials and Divertor Plates; S.J. Zenobia and G.L. Kulcinski, May 2009 [presented at the 12th International Workshop on Plasma Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications, 11-14 May 2009, Juelich, Germany]. (1 page, 2.5 MB)