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-174 MHD Equilibria for Plasmas in a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor (TETR); T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, September 1976. (14 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-152 MHD Equilibrium Study of Noncircular Tokamak Reactor Plasmas; T.F. Yang and R.W. Conn, November 1975. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-248 MHD Equilibrium and Stability of NUWMAK; L.P. Mai, G.A. Emmert, and R.W. Conn, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 843 (1978)]. (10 pages, 897 kB)
UWFDM-930 MHD, Heat Transfer and Stress Analysis for the ITER Self-Cooled Blanket Design; X.R. Wang, E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1993. (29 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-630 MIG: MCNP Input Generator for EFFI Magnet Geometries; H. Attaya and Y. Gohar, 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, 736 kB)
UWFDM-660 MINIMARS Halo Model and Computer Code; W.L. Barr, L.J. Perkins, J.F. Santarius, B.Q. Deng and G.A. Emmert, November 1985 [Presented at 11th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, November 18-22, 1985, Austin, TX]. (7 pages, 714 kB) [more]
UWFDM-372 MIXER - A Multi-Species Optical Data and Equation of State Computer Code; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, September 1980. (31 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-464 MIXERG - An Equation of State and Opacity Computer Code; R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, March 1982 [Comm. Physics Communications 28 405 (1983)]. (56 pages, 4.2 MB)
UWFDM-158 Magnet Design of Toroidal Field Coils for the UWMAK-Tokamak Systems; R.W. Boom, R.W. Moses, Jr., and W.C. Young, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (52 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-868 Magnet Shielding Effectiveness of the Proposed Blankets for ITER; L.A. El-Guebaly, September 1991 [Presented at the 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September - 3 October 1991, San Diego CA; published in Proc. IEEE]. (6 pages, 547 kB)
UWFDM-795 Magnetic Fusion Energy and Space Development; J.F. Santarius, July 1989 [24th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Vol. 5 (IEEE, NY, 1989) 2525]. (13 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-920 Magnetic Fusion Propulsion: Opening the Solar-System Frontier; J.F. Santarius, July 1993 [Proc. 2nd Wisconsin Symposium on Helium-3 and Fusion Power, 19-21 July 1993, Madison WI, p. 321]. (10 pages, 866 kB)
UWFDM-881 Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, March 1992 [Proceedings of the 10th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-12 June 1992, Boston MA; Fusion Technology 21 (1992) 1794]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-900 Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion: Capabilities and Issues; J.F. Santarius, July 1992 [Proc. of the American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting on Nuclear Technologies for Space Exploration, 16-19 August 1992, Jackson Hole WY, p. 409]. (12 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-408 Magnets for the Tandem Mirror Fusion Power Reactor WITAMIR-I; W. Maurer, D.C. Larbalestier, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, March 1981 [Presented at the 7th International Conference on Magnet Technology, Karlsruhe, West Germany, March 30-April 3, 1981; to appear in IEEE Transactions and Magnetics 17, September 1981]. (8 pages, 747 kB) [more]
UWFDM-376 Maintainability Considerations for the Central Cell in WITAMIR-I, A Conceptual Design of a Tandem Mirror Fusion Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1980 [Proc. of the 4th ANS Topical Meeting, King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 1980]. (7 pages, 816 kB)
UWFDM-114 Major Design Features of the Conceptual D-T Tokamak Power Reactor, UWMAK-II; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, M. Abdou, R.W. Boom, G.A. Emmert, Y. Eyssa, M. Hilal, J. Kesner, W. Lue, C.W. Maynard, A. Mense, J. Scharer, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, L. Wittenberg, T. Yang, and W. Young, October 1974 [published in the Proceedings of the Fifth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Tokyo, Japan, 11-15 November 1974]. (19 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-33 Major Technological Problems for Fusion Reactor Power Stations; G.L. Kulcinski, November 1972. (31 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-1270 Managing Fusion High Level Waste - A Strategy for Burning the Long-Lived Products in Fusion Devices; L.A. El-Guebaly, May 2005 [presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, May 22-27, 2005, Tokyo, Japan; Fusion Engineering and Design, 81 (2006) 1321-1326]. (13 pages, 632 kB)
UWFDM-579 Material Considerations for ICRH Ceramic-Filled Waveguide Launchers; Laila A. El-Guebaly, June 1984. (42 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-548 Materials Considerations for Highly Irradiated Normal-Conducting Magnets in Fusion Reactor Applications; L. John Perkins, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983]. (8 pages, 735 kB)
UWFDM-547 Materials Engineering for Tandem Mirror Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983] [J. Nucl. Matls. 122&123 (1984) 29]. (11 pages, 856 kB)
UWFDM-186 Materials Problems and Possible Solutions for Near Term Tokamak Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, September 1976. (38 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-624 Materials Problems for Highly Irradiated ICRH Launchers in Fusion Reactors; L.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 2A, 553 (July 1985)]. (9 pages, 885 kB)
UWFDM-52 Materials Radiation Damage Limitations in the Wisconsin Fusion Reactor Design; G.L. Kulcinski, R.G. Brown, R.G. Lott, and P.A. Sanger, July 1973. (18 pages, 1.9 MB) [more]
UWFDM-683 Materials Testing in the ICF Test Facility SIRIUS-M; M.E. Sawan and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1986 [Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 14-17 April 1986, Chicago, IL; J. Nucl. Matl. 141-143 (1986) 1039]. (23 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-27 Materials and Cost Analysis of Constant-Tension Magnet Windings for Tokamak Reactors; W.C. Young and R.W. Boom, September 1972. (11 pages, 939 kB)
UWFDM-342 Matrix Representation of Multivariate Polynomials - A Systematic Approach for Computer Algebra; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, February 1980. (11 pages, 617 kB)
UWFDM-662 Measured Vaporization and Melting of High Heat Flux Materials Due to Intense Heat Loads; C.D. Croessmann, G.L. Kulcinski, J.B. Whitley, November 1985 [Presented at 11th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, November 18-22, 1985, Austin, TX]. (8 pages, 847 kB)
UWFDM-1298 Measurements of Mixing Induced at a Gas Interface by the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, J. Greenough, R. Bonazza, July 2004 [presented at the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW24), Beijing, China, 11-16 July 2004; published in Shock Waves, Z.L. Jiang (ed.), Paper 2691]. (9 pages, 644 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1046 Measurements of Planar Target Heating by an Intense Lithium Ion Beam; J.E. Bailey, J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, A.L. Carlson, T.A. Haill, D.J. Johnson, P. Lake, E.J. McGuire, T.A. Mehlhorn, May 1997 [submitted to Physical Review E]. (43 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-561 Mechanical Analysis of First Wall Tubes for the LIBRA Conceptual Reactor; R. Engelstad and E. Lovell, December 1983 [presented at the IEEE Mtg., Philadelphia, PA, 12-16 December 1983]. (6 pages, 636 kB)
UWFDM-299 Mechanical Constitutive Laws for the Irradiation Behavior of Graphite; R.D. Watson and W.G. Wolfer, January 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 159 (1979)]. (10 pages, 773 kB)
UWFDM-1019 Mechanical Design Aspects of the LIBRA-SP Light Ion Beam Driven ICF Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.A. Mogahed, P. Cousseau, R.L. Engelstad, H.Y. Khater, G.L. Kulcinski, J.J. MacFarlane, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, P. Wang, May 1996 [Presented at the 12th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Power, 16-20 June 1996, Reno NV]. (8 pages, 816 kB)
UWFDM-836 Mechanical Design and Fabrication of the U.S. Solid Breeder Blanket for ITER; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.P. Blanchard, Y. Gohar, S. Majumdar, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL]. (9 pages, 852 kB) [more]
UWFDM-828 Mechanical Design of the LMF Target Chamber; R.L. Engelstad, J.W. Powers and E.G. Lovell, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL]. (9 pages, 648 kB)
UWFDM-772 Mechanical Property Changes in Ion Irradiated Metals - Part I: Ni-Cu Alloys; D.H. Plantz, L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, June 1989 [presented at the Symposium on Irradiation Enhanced Materials Science and Engineering, 1988 TMS Fall Meeting, 26-29 September 1988, Chicago IL]. (22 pages, 4.8 MB)
UWFDM-773 Mechanical Property Changes in Ion Irradiated Metals - Part II: High Strength Cu-Ni-Be Alloy; D.H. Plantz, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, June 1989 [presented at the Symposium on Irradiation Enhanced Materials Science and Engineering, 1988 TMS Fall Meeting, 26-29 September 1988, Chicago IL]. (20 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-446 Mechanical Response of Cavity Tube Banks in Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (6 pages, 641 kB)
UWFDM-1260 Mechanical and Microstructural Changes in Heavy Ion Irradiated Metals; David Hewson Plantz, December 1990 [Ph.D. thesis]. (185 pages, 15 MB)