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-137 Divertor Criteria for a TCT: Some Reasons Why; A.T. Mense, October 1975. (16 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-517 Divertor Target Design for the UWTOR-M Stellarator Power Reactor; R. Sanders and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (8 pages, 763 kB)
UWFDM-458 Documentation for MF-FIRE, A Multifrequency Radiative Transfer Version of FIRE; G.A. Moses, T.J. McCarville, and R.R. Peterson, March 1982 (revised August 1984) [Computer Phys. Comm. 36, 249 (1985)]. (150 pages, 6.0 MB)
UWFDM-809 Dose Rate Calculations for a Light Ion Beam Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility; H.Y. Khater and M.E. Sawan, October 1989 [Presented at the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 804 kB)
UWFDM-483 Drift Forces on Vacancies and Interstitials in Alloys with Radiation-Induced Segregation; W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [J. Nucl. Matls. 00, 0 (1982)]. (46 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-403 Drift Orbits and Drift-Orbit Pumping in Thermal Barriers; D.G. Braun and G.A. Emmert, February 1981 [presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, APS, Nov. 10-14, 1980, San Diego, CA]. (39 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-163 Drift Surfaces in Linear and Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields; J.E. Howard, June 1976. (25 pages, 971 kB)
UWFDM-1126 Dry Wall Chamber Issues for the SOMBRERO Laser Fusion Power Plant; G.L. Kulcinski, R.R. Peterson, L.J. Wittenberg, E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, June 2000 [Presented at the IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Target and Chambers, Madrid, Spain, 7-9 June 2000]. (17 pages, 944 kB)
UWFDM-1035 Dynamic Effective Elastic Constants for Perforated Plates with Square or Triangular Penetration Patterns; D.L. Kaap, August 1997 [M.S. thesis]. (104 pages, 6.7 MB)
UWFDM-1149 Dynamic Fragmentation of Brittle Materials: Analytical Mechanics-Based Models; W.J. Drugan, January 2001 [accepted for publication in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids]. (41 pages, 234 kB)
UWFDM-655 Dynamic Response of Target Development Facility Spherical Chambers; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, October 1985. (16 pages, 787 kB)
UWFDM-510 Dynamic Stress Analysis of Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility Reaction Chambers; E.G. Lovell and R.L. Engelstad, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN (Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (2) (September 1983) 878-882)]. (8 pages, 648 kB)
UWFDM-468 Dynamics of Melting, Evaporation, and Resolidification of Materials Exposed to Plasma Disruptions; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, May 1982 [presented at the 5th International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices; J. Nucl. Matls. 111 & 112, 554-559 (1982)]. (20 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-287 Dynamics of Newtonian Annular Jets; D.D. Paul, January 1979 [M.S. thesis]. (72 pages, 15 MB)
UWFDM-1109 Dynamics of the Earth-Moon-Sun System and How It Impacts the Solar Wind Implanted Hydrogen Distribution on the Moon; Michael J. Zalewski, October 1999 (revised January 2000). (13 pages, 215 kB)
UWFDM-933 EOSOPC - A Code for Computing the Equations of State and Opacities of High Temperature Plasmas with Detailed Atomic Models; Ping Wang, December 1993. (39 pages, 682 kB)
UWFDM-1137 EVOLVE Lithium Tray Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis; M.H. Anderson, J.G. Murphy, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.L. Corradini, S. Malang, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 141 kB) [more]
UWFDM-513 Economic Design Optimization of the LiPb Blanket for the Mirror Advanced Reactor (MARS); L.J. Perkins and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (1983) 1107]. (9 pages, 811 kB)
UWFDM-206 Effect of Experiments-Size Parameters on Monte Carlo Estimates in Fusion Reactor Blanket Simulations; M.M.H. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, June 1977. (42 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-608 Effect of Hydrogen on Void Production in Nickel; D.B. Bullen, G.L. Kulcinski and R.A. Dodd, November 1984 [presented at the First International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Tokyo, Japan, 3- 6 December 1984; to be published in J. Nucl. Materials]. (17 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-61 Effect of Neutron Irradiation on the Ductility of 316 Stainless Steel; R. Lott, April 1973. (36 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-285 Effect of Nickel and Nitrogen on Void Formation in Ion Bombarded Vanadium; R.G. Lott, G.L. Kulcinski, P. Wilkes, and H.V. Smith, Jr., March 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 751 (1979)]. (8 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-192 Effect of Particle Histories Termination Parameters on Monte Carlo Estimates in Fusion Reactor Blanket Scoping Studies; M.M.H. Ragheb, Y.M. Gohar, and C.W. Maynard, February 1977. (43 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-481 Effect of Radiation-Induced Segregation on Void Nucleation; A. Si-Ahmed and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [11th ASTM Symposium on Effects of Radiation on Materials, Scottsdale, AZ, 28-30 June 1982]. (19 pages, 964 kB)
UWFDM-504 Effect of Temperature on Magnetic Field Perturbations from the Ferromagnetic Blankets in MARS; H. Attaya and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (1983) 471]. (9 pages, 764 kB)
UWFDM-346 Effective Time and Resonance Width in Cyclotron Resonance Heating; J.E. Howard, May 1980. (29 pages, 1.2 MB)
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-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-912 Effects of Coronal and Shock-Produced X-Rays on the Ionization Distribution in Hot Star Winds; J.J. MacFarlane, W.L. Waldron, M.F. Corcoran, M.J. Wolff, P. Wang, J.P. Cassinelli, March 1993 [Astrophysical Journal (1993)]. (36 pages, 574 kB) [more]
UWFDM-306 Effects of Gas Pressure on the Amount of X-ray Energy Absorbed in the First Wall of an Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor; A. Hassanein and G.L. Kulcinski, August 1979. (14 pages, 726 kB)
UWFDM-1339 Effects of He+ Implantation on the Surface Morphology of SiC; S.J. Zenobia, G.L. Kulcinski, R.F. Radel, D.R. Boris, R.P. Ashley, November 2006 [prepared for the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (7 pages, 4.5 MB)
UWFDM-825 Effects of Heat Treatment and Irradiation on a Manganese-Stabilized Martensitic Stainless Steel; Robin Dawn Griffin, March 1990 [Ph.D. thesis]. (114 pages, 18 MB)
UWFDM-436 Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation on the Phase Stability of Several Copper-Base Alloys; Robert W. Knoll, August 1981 [Ph.D. thesis]. (305 pages, 12 MB)
UWFDM-1377 Effects of Helium Ion Implantation on the Surface Morphology of Tungsten at High Temperature for the First Wall Armor and Divertor Plates of Fusion Reactors; Samuel J. Zenobia, June 2010 [Ph.D. thesis]. (238 pages, 38 MB)
UWFDM-1317 Effects of High Temperature Pulsed Helium Implantation on Tungsten Surface Morphology; R.F. Radel and G.L. Kulcinski, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (7 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-640 Effects of Irradiation and High Heat Flux on the Lifetime Performance of Ferritic and 316 Stainless Steels; Bruce Bernard Glasgow, May 1985 [Ph.D. thesis]. (163 pages, 4.7 MB)
UWFDM-938 Effects of Multiple Ionization on the K-alpha Spectrum of Aluminum in Intense Lithium Beam Experiments; P. Wang, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, January 1994 [submitted for publication to Lasers and Particle Beams as part of the 6th International Workshop on Atomic Physics for Ion Driven Fusion, 8-12 November 1993, Santa Fe NM]. (20 pages, 711 kB)
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-903 Effects of Shock-Produced X-Rays on the Ionization Balance in the Wind of epsilon Ori; J.J. MacFarlane, M. Wolff, P. Wang, August 1992 [Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Conference on Massive Stars, in Massive Stars: Their Lives in the Interstellar Medium (1993)]. (5 pages, 905 kB)
UWFDM-688 Effects of Thermal Annealing and Ion Irradiation on the Microstructures of HT-9 Ferritic Steel; Ji-Jung Kai, May 1986 [Ph.D. thesis]. (294 pages, 35 MB)