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-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-914 Generic Magnetic Fusion Rocket Model; J.F. Santarius and B.G. Logan, April 1993 (revised February 1998) [Prepared for the 29th AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Paper AIAA-93-2029, June 28-30, 1993, Monterey CA]. (33 pages, 623 kB) [more]
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-972 Advanced-Fuel Heat Flux, Power Density and Direct Conversion Issues; J.F. Santarius, November 1994 [Presented at the Sixth International Toki Conference, Toki-City, Japan, 29 November - 2 December 1994; published in Fusion Technology 27 (April 1995)]. (7 pages, 744 kB)
UWFDM-1048 Synchrotron Radiation Fusion Drive for Space Propulsion; J.F. Santarius, G.A. Emmert, H.Y. Khater, E.A. Mogahed, J. Brandenburg, July 1997 [presented at the 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 6-9, 1997, Seattle WA]. (11 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-1062 Could Advanced Fusion Fuels Be Used with Today's Technology?; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, H.Y. Khater, January 1998 [presented at Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting, August 27-29, 1997, Aspen CO; Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1998, p. 33]. (18 pages, 828 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-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-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-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-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-1214 A Passively Proliferation-Proof Fusion Power Plant; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, L.A. El-Guebaly, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 289 (2003)]. (8 pages, 669 kB)
UWFDM-1254 Overview of University of Wisconsin Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Research; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, R.P. Ashley, D.R. Boris, B.B. Cipiti, S. Krupakar Murali, G.R. Piefer, R.F. Radel, T.E. Uchytil, and A.L. Wehmeyer, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1238-1244]. (10 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-1287 Fusion Space Propulsion-A Shorter Time Frame Than You Think; J.F. Santarius, December 2005 [presented at the 53rd Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, Monterey, 5-8 December 2005]. (12 pages, 812 kB)
UWFDM-1291 A Strategy for D-3He Fusion Development; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, G.H. Miley, June 2006 [presented at the ANS Annual Meeting, 4-8 June 2006, Reno NV]. (5 pages, 657 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1409 Compression of a Spherically Symmetric DT Plasma Liner onto a Magnetized DT Target; J.F. Santarius, March 2012 [submitted to Physics of Plasmas.]. (21 pages, 962 kB)
UWFDM-104 A Consistent Model for Energy Distribution of Secondary Neutrons from (n,2n) and (n,n-prime) Reactions; M. Sawan and R.W. Conn, May 1974 [Trans. ANS 19 (1974) 469]. (9 pages, 520 kB)
UWFDM-386 Time Dependent Neutronics Analysis for the First Wall of the University of Wisconsin Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Design; M.E. Sawan, G.A. Moses, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1980 [Trans. ANS 38 (1981) 574, Nucl. Tech./Fusion 2 (1982) 215]. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-395 Coupled Target - Blanket Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for the University of Wisconsin Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Design; M.E. Sawan, W.F. Vogelsang, and G.A. Moses, November 1980 [Trans. ANS 38 (1981) 574]. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-399 The TDA and TIMEX Codes for Time-Dependent Neutronics and Photonics Analysis of ICF Reactors; M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, January 1981. (36 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-424 Production and Behavior of Point Defects in Pulsed Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors; M.E. Sawan, G.L. Kulcinski, and N.M. Ghoniem, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 109 (1982)]. (7 pages, 726 kB) [more]
UWFDM-438 Radiation Shielding of Heavy Ion Beam Focussing Magnets in HIBALL; M.E. Sawan, W.F. Vogelsang, and D.K. Sze, August 1981 [Trans. ANS 39 (1981) 777]. (26 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-441 Three-Dimensional Nuclear Analysis for the HIBALL Reactor Cavity; M.E. Sawan, L.A. El-Guebaly, and W.F. Vogelsang, September 1981 [Trans. ANS 39 (9181) 780]. (22 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-444 An Improved Materials Testing Module for Magnetic Fusion; M.E. Sawan, D.K. Sze, and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (6 pages, 734 kB)
UWFDM-485 Response of a Liquid Metal Test Blanket for the MFTF-B+T Device; M.E. Sawan, Jin-Hua Huang, G.L. Kulcinski, Yaotong Li, K.E. Plute, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, and A. White, September 7, 1982. (24 pages, 985 kB)
UWFDM-518 Streaming and Shielding Analysis for the NBI System of TDF; M.E. Sawan, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 412 (1983) 412] [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (9 pages, 783 kB)
UWFDM-526 Buildup Factors for Magnet Shielding in Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactors; M.E. Sawan, C.W. Maynard, and L.A. El-Guebaly, May 1983 [presented at the Sixth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, 16-20 May 1983, Tokyo, Japan]. (13 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-551 Charts for Specifying Limits on Copper Stabilizer Damage Rate; M.E. Sawan, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983; J. Nucl. Matl. 122&123 (1984) 1376]. (8 pages, 686 kB)
UWFDM-570 Three-Dimensional Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for PBFA-II; M.E. Sawan, February 1984. (27 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-575 Nuclear Environment in the Array of Loops ICRF Launcher Module of INTOR; Mohamed E. Sawan, May 1984. (38 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-619 Nuclear Analysis for the INTOR Array of Loops ICRF Launcher Module Design; M.E. Sawan, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8/1 (July 1985) 1431]. (9 pages, 855 kB)
UWFDM-620 Neutronics Analysis for a High Wall Loading Compact Tokamak Power Reactor; M.E. Sawan and H.M. Attaya, February 1985 [Presented at the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 March 1985; Fusion Tech. 8/1 (1985) 1437]. (9 pages, 855 kB)
UWFDM-639 Benchmark Calculations for Fusion Blanket Development; Mohamed E. Sawan and Edward T. Cheng, May 1985 [Radiation Effects 92 (1986) 167]. (17 pages, 799 kB)
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-700 Geometrical, Spectral and Temporal Differences Between ICF and MCF Reactors and Their Impact on Blanket Nuclear Parameters; M.E. Sawan, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986; Fus. Tech. 10/3 (1986) 1483]. (10 pages, 868 kB)
UWFDM-703 Superconducting Magnet Radiation Effects in Fusion Reactors; Mohamed E. Sawan, Peter L. Walstrom, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986; Fus. Tech. 10/3 (1986) 741]. (9 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-737 An Outboard Shield Design for TIBER-II with Potential for Tritium Self-Sufficiency; M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA; IEEE Cat. No. 87CH2507-2, Vol. 2, pp. 1283]. (7 pages, 797 kB)
UWFDM-757 The Breeding Shield Design for the Technology Test Reactor TIBER-II; M.E. Sawan, J.D. Lee, March 1988 [Fusion Engr. &\ Des. 8 (1989) 161]. (20 pages, 980 kB)
UWFDM-775 An Aqueous Lithium Salt Self-Cooled Blanket and Shield for ITER; M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1988 [presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 9-13 October 1988, Salt Lake City UT; Fus. Tech. 15/2 (1989) 643]. (9 pages, 824 kB)