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 60000 pages to the 1400 reports. Nearly all are online.
Publications
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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-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-185 Gravity Circulated Solid Blanket Design for a Tokamak Fusion Reactor; D.K. Sze, D.C. Schluderberg, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, September 1976. (14 pages, 973 kB) [more]
UWFDM-223 Thermal, Mechanical and Neutronic Design Considerations for a Graphite Structure Li2O Cooled Blanket; D.K. Sze, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.T. Cheng, and H.I. Avci, October 1977. (18 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-246 A BWTR (Boiling Water Tokamak Reactor) Blanket Study; D.K. Sze, C.W. Maynard, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.T. Cheng, C.C. Wang, J. Wrazel, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 239 (1978)]. (12 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-377 Thermal and Mechanical Design of WITAMIR-I Blanket; D.K. Sze and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (10 pages, 847 kB)
UWFDM-378 LiPb, A Novel Material for Fusion Applications; D.K. Sze, R. Clemmer, and E.T. Cheng, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980 (CONF80-1011, USDOE, July 1981, pp. 1786-1791)]. (11 pages, 936 kB)
UWFDM-388 Thermal and Mechanical Design Considerations for INTOR; D.K. Sze, W.G. Homeyer, R.L. Creedon, C.P. Wong, and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980. (39 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-445 In-Situ Tritium Recovery from Li17Pb83 Breeding Blanket; D.K. Sze, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-520 Emergency Cooling of the MARS LiPb Blanket; D.K. Sze and A. White, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (8 pages, 694 kB)
UWFDM-846 Discrete Ordinates Solution of the Time Dependent Radiation Transport Equation on a Distributed Network of UNIX Workstations; Timothy J. Tautges and Osman Yasar, January 1991. (47 pages, 849 kB)
UWFDM-1103 Helium-3 on the Moon for Fusion Energy: the Persian Gulf of the 21st Century; L.A. Taylor and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1999 [published in Solar System Research, Vol. 33, No. 5, 1999, pp. 338-345]. [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-293 Research on Microsphere Fabrication and Coolant Loop Technology for Lithium Oxide Moving Bed Fusion Power Plant; T.A. Thornton, D.C. Schluderberg, D.K. Sze, and F.A. Zenz, February 1979. (8 pages, 891 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1168 ARIES Inertial Fusion Chamber Assessment; M.S. Tillack, F. Najmabadi, L. El-Guebaly, R.R. Peterson, D.T. Goodin, K.R. Schultz, W.R. Meier, J. Perkins, D.A. Petti, J.D. Sethian, L.M. Waganer, ARIES Team, March 2001 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15--19, 2000, Park City UT; published in Fusion Technology, 39, No. 2, 343 (2001)]. [more]
UWFDM-554 Conditions for Dislocation Loop-Punching by Helium Bubbles; H. Trinkaus and W.G. Wolfer, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (9 pages, 772 kB) [more]
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-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-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-1223 Shock Wave Propagation and Gas-Debris Transport into a Vacuum: A Novel Computational Model-TEXAS-NCV; T.T. Utschig, M.L. Corradini, December 2003 [published in Fusion Science and Technology, Vol. 44, December 2003, pp. 791-802].
UWFDM-409 Preliminary Magnet Design for a Stellarator Fusion Reactor; S.W. Van Sciver, J. Derr, A. Khalil, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, April 1981. (7 pages, 717 kB)
UWFDM-448 Conceptual Design for a Modular Stellarator Fusion Reactor Magnet; S.W. Van Sciver, A. Khalil, K.Y. Yuan, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 693 kB)
UWFDM-2 Breeding Ratio, Inventory, and Doubling Time in a D-T Fusion Reactor; W.F. Vogelsang, December 1971. (17 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-51 Transmutation Effects in CTR Blankets; W.F. Vogelsang, G.L. Kulcinski, R. Lott, and T. Sung, July 1973. (7 pages, 544 kB)
UWFDM-74 Transmutations, Radioactivity and Afterheat in a D-T-Tokamak Fusion Reactor; W.F. Vogelsang, G.L. Kulcinski, R.G. Lott, and T.Y. Sung, November 20, 1973. (40 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-178 Radioactivity and Associated Problems in Thermonuclear Reactors; W.F. Vogelsang, September 1976. (19 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-573 Polonium Production in the MARS Reactor; W.F. Vogelsang, A.M. White, L. Wittenberg and D.K. Sze, April 1984. (12 pages, 662 kB)
UWFDM-691 The Impact of D-3He Fusion Reactors on Waste Disposal; W.F. Vogelsang and H.Y Khater, May 1987 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 5 (1998) 367-377]. (13 pages, 734 kB)
UWFDM-869 Liquid-Metal/Water Interactions in a Shock-Tube Geometry; G. Vukovic, August 1991. (89 pages, 2.9 MB)
UWFDM-611 Stability Limit Guidelines for Superconducting Coil Design; P.L. Walstrom, January 1985. (34 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-690 Approximation of General Curved Surfaces in the Fabrication of Shell Structures; P.L. Walstrom, September 1986. (35 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-701 The Differential Geometry of Twisted Coil Windings; P.L. Walstrom, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986]. (10 pages, 729 kB)
UWFDM-715 Twisted Coil Geometry; P.L. Walstrom, December 1986. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-727 Heating of Deuterium and He3 Pellets by Protons in a Hot D-He3 Plasma; P.L. Walstrom, August 1987. (15 pages, 686 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-680 Gas Effects on Void Formation in 14 MeV Nickel Ion Irradiated Pure Nickel; L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1986 [Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-17 April 1986, Chicago, IL]. (19 pages, 976 kB)
UWFDM-731 Effects of 14 MeV Nickel Ion Irradiation on Nickel-Copper Alloys Observed in Cross-Section; L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1987 [Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 4-8 October 1987, Karlsruhe, FRG.]. (21 pages, 5.5 MB)
UWFDM-763 Radiation Damage and Copper Distribution in 14 MeV Copper Ion Implanted Nickel- TEM and AEM Analyses in Cross Section; L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, May 1988. (19 pages, 3.9 MB)
UWFDM-770 Effects of Preinjected Helium in Heavy-Ion Irradiated Nickel and Nickel-Copper Alloys; L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, S.J. Zinkle, September 1988 [presented at the Symposium on Irradiation Enhanced Materials Science and Engineering, 1988 TMS Fall Meeting, 26-29 September 1988, Chicago IL]. (18 pages, 5.0 MB)
UWFDM-783 Microstructure of Ion Irradiated Nickel and Nickel-Copper Alloys; Lu-Min Wang, December 1988 [Ph.D. thesis]. (196 pages, 25 MB)