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-1182 Activation Assessment for IFE Thin Liquid Wall Materials and Proposed Variations for Liquid Waste Minimization; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, L. Waganer, R. Raffray and the ARIES Team, November 2002. (18 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1181 Life-Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems and Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysis; Paul J. Meier, August 2002 [Ph.D. thesis]. (161 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1180 Nuclear Performance Assessment of ARIES-AT; L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, August 2002 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design, 80 (2006) 99-110]. (20 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-1179 Specification for Joint FTI/LLNL/UNED-IFN Contact Dose Comparison Exercise; Paul Wilson, Susana Reyes, Javier Sanz, December 2002. (6 pages, 852 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1178 Target Activation and Radiological Response of ARIES-IFE Dry Wall Chamber; L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, P.P.H. Wilson, A.E. Abdou, ARIES Team, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 7-12 April 2002, San Diego CA; published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 63-64, pp. 653-658 (2002)]. (11 pages, 352 kB)
UWFDM-1177 RAGE Simulations of Radiation Driven Turbulence; Robert R. Peterson and Thad Heltemes, March 2002. (21 pages, 768 kB)
UWFDM-1176 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, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 7-12 April 2002, San Diego CA; published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 61-62, pp. 561-567 (2002)]. (15 pages, 216 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1175 Nuclear Features of the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE); M.E. Sawan, H.Y. Khater, S.J. Zinkle, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 7-12 April 2002, San Diego CA; published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 63-64, pp. 547-557 (2002)]. (15 pages, 364 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1174 Comparison of Radwaste Volume and Hazard in Liquid Wall and Conventional Solid Wall Concepts; M.Z. Youssef, M.E. Sawan, H.Y. Khater, January 2002 [Presented at the 19th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 22-25 January 2002, Atlantic City NJ]. (7 pages, 724 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1173 Application of the IEAF-2000 Activation Data Library to Activation Analyses of the IFMIF High Flux Test Module; U. Fischer, P.P.H. Wilson, D. Leichtle, S.P. Simakov, U. von Moellendorff, A. Konobeev, Yu. Korovin, P. Pereslavtsev, I. Schmuck, October 2001 [presented at the 10th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-19 October 2001, Baden-Baden, Germany]. (15 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1172 Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability II: Nonlinear Evolution of a Shocked Membraneless Single-Mode Sinusoidal Interface; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (34 pages, 685 kB)
UWFDM-1171 Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability I: Preparation of a Membraneless Interface Using the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (32 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-1170 Safety and Environmental Assessment of ARIES-AT; D.A. Petti, B.J. Merrill, R.L. Moore, G.R. Longhurst, L. El-Guebaly, E. Mogahed, D. Henderson, P. Wilson, A. Abdou, 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, 449 (2001)]. [more]
UWFDM-1169 ARIES-AT Blanket and Divertor; A.R. Raffray, M.S. Tillack, X. Wang, L. El-Guebaly, I. Sviatoslavsky, S. Malang, 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, 429 (2001)]. [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-1167 High Performance Blanket for ARIES-AT Power Plant; A.R. Raffray, L. El-Guebaly, S. Gordeev, S. Malang, E. Mogahed, F. Najmabadi, I. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, M.S. Tillack, X. Wang, ARIES Team, February 2001 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design, 58-59, 549-553 (2001)]. [more]
UWFDM-1166 Experimental Study of a Strongly Shocked Gas Interface with Visualized Initial Conditions; M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J.G. Oakley, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 9-14 December 2001 (submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams)]. (8 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-1165 An Efficient and High Resolution Solver for the Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; S.P. Wang, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 9-14 December 2001 (submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams)]. (9 pages, 858 kB)
UWFDM-1164 High Performance Computation and Database of Radiative Properties with an Interface for ICF Applications; Jiankui Yuan, December 2001 [Ph.D. thesis]. (189 pages, 7.9 MB)
UWFDM-1163 Inertial Fusion Energy Target Output and Chamber Response: Calculations and Experiments; R.R. Peterson, D.A. Haynes, Jr., I.E. Golovkin, G.A. Moses, January 2002 [published in Physics of Plasmas, 9, No. 5, 2287 (May 2002)]. (15 pages, 967 kB)
UWFDM-1162 Nuclear Considerations for FIRE; M.E. Sawan and H.Y. Khater, January 2002 [Presented at the 19th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 22-25 January 2002, Atlantic City NJ]. (7 pages, 588 kB)
UWFDM-1161 Analysis of Experimental Behavior of Molten SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; P. Meekunnasombat, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, December 2001. (83 pages, 4.6 MB)
UWFDM-1160 Shock Loading of a Cylinder Bank with Imaging and Pressure Measurements; Jason G. Oakley, Mark H. Anderson, Shaoping Wang, Riccardo Bonazza, July 2001 [presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Fort Worth TX, 22-27 July 2001]. (10 pages, 641 kB)
UWFDM-1159 Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of an Interface Prepared by Removal of a Sinusoidal Plate; Mark Anderson, Jason Oakley, Bhalchandra Puranik, Riccardo Bonazza, July 2001 [presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Fort Worth TX, 22-27 July 2001]. (10 pages, 484 kB)
UWFDM-1158 ArFIT: A Detailed Model of Ar K-Shell Emission from High Energy Density Plasmas; D.A. Haynes, Jr., R.R. Peterson, I.E. Golovkin, C.F. Hooper, Jr., September 2001 [presented at the 2nd International Conference on Inertial Fusion Science and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 9-14 September 2001]. (7 pages, 495 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-1156 Atomic Processes of Hot Ultra-Dense Plasmas Technical Progress Report for FY01 National Laser User Facility Grant; C.F. Hooper, Jr., D.A. Haynes, Jr., J. Delettrez, P. Jaanimagi, S.P. Regan, I.E. Golovkin, R.R. Peterson, N.D. Delamater, August 2001. (14 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1155 Need for Special Burning Module in Fusion Devices to Transmute Fusion High-Level Waste; L.A. El-Guebaly, June 2002. (14 pages, 337 kB)
UWFDM-1154 Activation of Target Coatings/Hohlraums and Influence on Waste Management of IFE Chambers; L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, P.P.H. Wilson, A.E. Abdou and the ARIES Team, November 2001. (17 pages, 259 kB)
UWFDM-1153 On the Exploration of Innovative Concepts for Fusion Chamber Technology; M.A. Abdou, the APEX Team, A. Ying, N. Morley, K. Gulec, S. Smolentsev, M. Kotschenreuther, S. Malang, S. Zinkle, T. Rognlien, P. Fogarty, B. Nelson, R. Nygren, K. McCarthy, M.Z. Youssef, N. Ghoniem, D. Sze, C. Wong, M. Sawan, H. Khater, R. Woolley, R. Mattas, R. Moir, S. Sharafat, J. Brooks, A. Hassanein, D. Petti, M. Tillack, M. Ulrickson, T. Uchimoto, June 2000 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 54 (2001) 181-247]. [more]
UWFDM-1152 Options for the Use of High Temperature Superconductor in Tokamak Fusion Reactor Designs; L. Bromberg, M. Tekula, L.A. El-Guebaly, R. Miller, ARIES Team, May 2000 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 54 (2001) 167-180.]. [more]
UWFDM-1151 Progress and Critical Issues for IFE Blanket and Chamber Research; B.G. Logan, W.R. Meier, R.W. Moir, M. Abdou, P.F. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, M.S. Tillack, J.F. Latkowski, D. Petti, K.R. Schultz, A. Nobile, December 2000 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 51-52 (2000) 1095-1101.]. [more]
UWFDM-1150 New Opportunities for Fusion in the 21st Century - Advanced Fuels; G.L. Kulcinski and J.F. Santarius, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 129 kB)
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-1148 Electromagnetic Disruption Effects in the ARIES-RS Tokamak Design; J.A. Crowell and J.P. Blanchard, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (6 pages, 882 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1147 Activation, Decay Heat, and Waste Disposal Analyses for the ARIES-AT Power Plant; D. Henderson, L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, A. Abdou, and the ARIES Team, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 190 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-1145 Shock Loading of IFE Reactor Cooling Tubes; M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, M.A. Coil, R. Bonazza, R.R. Peterson, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (8 pages, 473 kB)
UWFDM-1144 Steady-State D-3He Proton Production in an IEC Fusion Device; R.P. Ashley, G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, S. Krupakar Murali, G. Piefer, R. Radel, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 206 kB)
UWFDM-1143 The Potential for Fusion Power to Mitigate U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions; P.J. Meier and G.L. Kulcinski, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (8 pages, 113 kB)