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-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-628 Radioactivity in the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, R.R. Peterson, and G.A. Moses, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8, (July 1985) 1396]. (9 pages, 809 kB)
UWFDM-636 One-Dimensional Activation and Radiological Dose Calculations for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, October 1985. (83 pages, 3.0 MB)
UWFDM-671 DKR-1100: A Univac 1100 Version of the DKR Radioactivity Code; D.L. Henderson, February 1986. (96 pages, 4.3 MB)
UWFDM-672 DKRDOSE and DKRCONVERT: A Dose Rate Calculation Code and an Auxiliary Data Handling Code for the DKR and DKR-1100 Radioactivity Codes; D.L. Henderson, February 1986. (46 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-707 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, October 1986 [Fus. Tech. 13 (May 1988) 594]. (60 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-714a DKR-ICF: A Radioactivity and Dose Rate Calculation Code Package - Volume 2: Sample Problems for the DKR, CONVERT and DOSE Codes; D.L. Henderson, O. Yasar, November 1986 (revised April 1987) [available from the Radiation Information Shielding Center at ORNL, Report CCC-323/DKR]. (180 pages, 7.4 MB)
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-559 Modelling of Lithium-Lead/Water Interactions in a Fusion Reactor Design; J.P. Herzog and M.L. Corradini, September 1983 (revised August 1984). (116 pages, 4.2 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-695 Computation of Chemical Equilibrium in a Constant Temperature and Pressure System; Jim Herzog, June 1986. (47 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-791 Lithium-Lead/Water Interactions: Experiments and Analysis; J.P. Herzog, March 1989. (231 pages, 6.8 MB)
UWFDM-110 Charging Losses of the Divertors and Transformer Coils; M.A. Hilal, September 1974. (14 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-144 Cryogenically Stable Conductors for Toroidal Fusion Reactor Magnets; M.A. Hilal and R.W. Boom, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 775 kB)
UWFDM-165 Transition and Recovery of Cryogenically Stable Conductors in Fusion Reactor Magnets; M.A. Hilal and R.W. Boom, June 1976 [presented at 9th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, 14-18 June 1976]. (9 pages, 761 kB)
UWFDM-721 UWEOSPAC: A Subroutine Package for Accessing MIXERG-Generated SESAME-Formatted Multigroup Opacity Tables; R.W. Holzer, March 1987. (30 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-224 Resistance to Strain Degradation in Preliminary UWMAK TF Coil Conductors for Fusion Reactors; S.O. Hong, P.F. Michaelson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and W.C. Young, November 1977. (21 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-261 Optimization of the High Field Critical Current Density in MF Nb3Sn for Magnet Use; S.O. Hong and D.C. Larbalestier, September 1978. (6 pages, 721 kB)
UWFDM-344 A Preliminary Design of the End Plug Magnet System for a Tandem Mirror Reactor; S.O. Hong, D.C. Larbalestier, L.P. Mai, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and I. Ojalvo, November 1979. (8 pages, 818 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-103 Thermalization of an Energetic Heavy Ion in Multispecies Plasmas; W.A. Houlberg, May 1974. (28 pages, 15 MB)
UWFDM-162 Growth Rates and Transport Coefficients for the Trapped Ion/Collisionless Trapped Particle Instability; W.A. Houlberg, June 1976. (37 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-201 Fluid Simulation of Large Tokamak Plasmas Using a Variable Spatial Mesh, Variable Time Step Implicit Procedure; W.A. Houlberg and R.W. Conn, March 1977 [presented at the Mathematics and Computations Division ANS Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March 28-30, 1977]. (34 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-163 Drift Surfaces in Linear and Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields; J.E. Howard, June 1976. (25 pages, 971 kB)
UWFDM-172 Uniformity of Illumination of Spherical Laser Fusion Targets; J.E. Howard, August 20, 1976. (49 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-176 On the Stability of the Flow of Thin Liquid Lithium Films; J.E. Howard, October 1976. (25 pages, 960 kB)
UWFDM-188 Classical Energy Deposition and Refraction in Spherical and Planar Laser Fusion Targets; James E. Howard, November 1976. (48 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-214 Imaging Properties of Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors; J. Howard, June 1977. (46 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-230 Mirror Damage Thresholds for Laser Fusion Pulse Shapes; J.E. Howard and T.O. Hunter, January 1978. (19 pages, 729 kB)
UWFDM-244 Beam Port Reduction Schemes for Laser Fusion Reactors; J.E. Howard, May 1978. (22 pages, 937 kB)
UWFDM-269 Non-Adiabatic Particle Motion in the Magnetotail; J.E. Howard, May 1979. (25 pages, 914 kB)
UWFDM-346 Effective Time and Resonance Width in Cyclotron Resonance Heating; J.E. Howard, May 1980. (29 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-508 Neutronics Analysis for the MARS Li-Pb Blanket and Shield; J.H. Huang and M.E. Sawan, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (1983) ]. (9 pages, 795 kB)
UWFDM-539 A Tritium Breeding Calculational Benchmark for Self-Cooled Li17Pb83 Blankets; Jin-Hua Huang and Mohamed E. Sawan, September 1983 [submitted to Nuclear Technology]. (39 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-1365 Hyperelastic Models for Granular Materials; Paul W. Humrickhouse, January 2009 [Ph.D. thesis]. (161 pages, 3.8 MB)
UWFDM-196 Description of the Response of Reactor First Walls to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation (Part I); T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, February 1977. (135 pages, 4.4 MB)
UWFDM-217 Description of the Response of Materials to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation - Part II; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1977. (101 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-221 Response of First Walls in Inertial Confinement Reactors to Thermonuclear Radiation; T.O. Hunter, S.I. Abdel-Khalik and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1977 [2nd IAEA Conference on Fusion Reactor Design, Madison, WI, October 1977, p. 573 (1978)]. (19 pages, 863 kB)
UWFDM-232 Description of Response of Materials to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation - Part III: Response Modification by Intermediate Gaseous Layers; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977. (72 pages, 2.5 MB)
UWFDM-233 Surface Damage and Thermal Effects from Transient Thermonuclear Radiation in Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1978 [J. Nucl. Matls. 76, 383 (1978)]. (24 pages, 1.1 MB)