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-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-294 Fluid Model of Central Cell Plasma in a Tandem Mirror; L.L. Lao and R.W. Conn, March 1979. (38 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-429 Flow and Fracture of Alloys in the Fusion Environment; W.G. Wolfer and R.H. Jones, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 1305-1314 (1981)]. (14 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1204 Flexible Database-Driven Opacity and Spectrum Calculations; J. Yuan, D.A. Haynes, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, April 2003 [submitted to Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer]. (11 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-237 First Wall and Divertor Plate Material Selection in Fusion Reactors; Robert W. Conn, March 20, 1978. (31 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-320 First Wall and Cavity Design Studies for a Light Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactor; G.A. Moses, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, D. Drake, R. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, R. Lewis, E. Lovell, T. McCarville, L. Peranich, R.R. Peterson, M. Ragheb, R. Spencer, October 1979. (87 pages, 3.9 MB)
UWFDM-626 First Wall and Blanket Design for a High Wall Loading Compact Tokamak Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, M.L. Corradini, L.J. Wittenberg, G.L. Kulcinski, K.Y. Huh, M. El-Afify, 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)]. (9 pages, 876 kB)
UWFDM-80 First Wall Surface Problems for a D-T Tokamak Reactor; G.L. Kulcinski and G.A. Emmert, January 1974. (17 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-323 First Wall Protection in ICF Reactors by Inert Cavity Gases; G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, October 1979. (103 pages, 3.7 MB)
UWFDM-281 First Wall Protection Schemes for Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, January 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 87 (1979)]. (14 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-322 First Wall Mechanical Design for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, December 1979. (54 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-522 First Wall Materials Selection for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, E.G. Lovell, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Moses, and K.J. Lee, 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, 872 (1983)]. (9 pages, 811 kB) [more]
UWFDM-423 First Wall Evaporation in Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors Utilizing Gas Protection; A.M. Hassanein, T.J. McCarville, and G.L. Kulcinski, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Mats. 103 & 104, 327 (1982)]. (9 pages, 763 kB)
UWFDM-455 Fireball Propagation in Preformed Plasma Channels in the Light Ion Beam Driven Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, K.J. Lee, and G.A. Moses, January 1982. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-536 Fireball Interaction with Lithium Mist in Light Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactor Cavities; R.R. Peterson, August 1983 (revised March 1984). (46 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-1059 Final Report to the Department of Energy Inertial Confinement Fusion Team for the Period November 1, 1993 - October 30, 1997 on Contract No. DE-AS08-88DP10754; P. Cousseau, R. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, D. Kaap, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, C. Nin, R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius, M. Sprague, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, P. Wang, P.P.H. Wilson, October 1997. (125 pages, 6.4 MB)
UWFDM-1129 Final Report for the Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical-Issue Scoping Study; J.F. Santarius, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, C.N. Nguyen, S.V. Ryzhkov, M.D. Stubna, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, March 2000. (72 pages, 2.4 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1209 Final Report for Research on Magnetized-Target Fusion for Space Propulsion; John F. Santarius and Mohamed E. Sawan, July 2003. (100 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-892 Final Focusing Magnetic Lenses for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; E. Mogahed, L.J. Wittenberg, E. Lovell, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, B. Choi, March 1992 [Prepared for the 10th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-12 June 1992, Boston MA (Fus. Tech. 21 (May 1992) 1578-1582)]. (8 pages, 698 kB)
UWFDM-935 Fifty Years of Research in Helium-3 Fusion and Helium-3 Resources; J.C. Crabb, S.W. White, L.P. Wainwright, S.E. Kratz, G.L. Kulcinski, December 1993 (revised May 1994). (134 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-1130 Field-Reversed Configurations for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, June 2000 [presented at the 31st AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 19-22 June 2000, Denver CO].
UWFDM-1084 Field-Reversed Configuration Power Plant Critical Issues; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, June 1998. (7 pages, 281 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1219 Feasibility of Target Material Recycling as Waste Management Alternative; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, A. Varuttamaseni, and the ARIES Team, October 2003 [published in Fusion Science and Technology 46, No. 3, 506 (2004)]. (24 pages, 903 kB)
UWFDM-622 Feasibility of Hands-On Maintenance of the Ion Sources in the NBI of MARS; Laila A. El-Guebaly, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8, No. 1, Part 2B, 1497 (July 1985)]. (9 pages, 843 kB)
UWFDM-594 Fatigue Stress Analysis of the Sandia TDF Reaction Chamber; R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell and G.A. Moses, September 1984. (32 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-618 Fatigue Strength Analysis of the Sandia Target Development Facility Reaction Chamber; R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell 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 Technology 8, 1890-1894 (July 1985)]. (8 pages, 712 kB)
UWFDM-968 Fatigue Life of the Plasma-Facing Components in PULSAR; J.A. Crowell, J.P. Blanchard and the PULSAR team, June 1994 [presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, June 26 - July 1, 1994, Los Angeles CA; to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design]. (10 pages, 879 kB)
UWFDM-227 Fast Magnetosonic Wave Heating of the NUWMAK Tokamak Reactor; J.E. Scharer, D.T. Blackfield, J.B. Beyer, and T.K. Mau, May 1978. (142 pages, 4.9 MB) [more]
UWFDM-718 Fast Ion Pressure in Fusion Plasmas; B.Q. Deng and G.A. Emmert, January 1987. (21 pages, 808 kB)
UWFDM-653 Failure/Maintenance Data Base for the Tritium Systems Test Assembly; Kathleen M. Gruetzmacher, December 1985. (180 pages, 6.8 MB)
UWFDM-543 Factors Which Determine the Swelling Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steels; F.A. Garner and W.G. Wolfer, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (9 pages, 791 kB) [more]
UWFDM-673 FUSEDATA - A Fusion Systems Data Base; A. Bennethum, Y. Watanabe, C. Maynard, K. Gruetzmacher, Z. Musicki, July 1986. (87 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-743 FUSCOST: A PC-Based Menu Driven Program for Economic Analysis of Fusion Facilities; Zoran Musicki, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 745 kB)
UWFDM-1068 FRC Power Plants - A Fusion Development Perspective; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, C.N. Nguyen, L.C. Steinhauer, G.H. Miley, April 1998 [to be published in the Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Physics of High-Beta Fusion Plasmas (Seattle, Washington, March 18-20, 1998)]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-336 FIRE - A Computer Code to Simulate Cavity Gas Response to Inertial Confinement Target Explosions; G.A. Moses and R.R. Peterson, January 1980. (81 pages, 2.2 MB)
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-806 Experiments to Simulate X-Ray Damage to the First Wall of the Inertial Confinement Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility; Robert R. Peterson, October 1989 [Presented at the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 514 kB)
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-345 Experiments on the Corrosion of 316 Stainless Steel by Liquid Lithium; D.G. Bauer, W.E. Stewart, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and D.K. Sze, April 1980. (11 pages, 862 kB)