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-402 Higher Order Sensitivity Theory and Nonlinear Optimization in Fusion Neutronics Studies; T. Wu and C.W. Maynard, January 1981. (63 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-405 An Analytical Model for the Motion and Radiative Response of a Low Density Inertial Confinement Fusion Buffer Gas; T.J. McCarville, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.A. Moses, January 1981. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-403 Drift Orbits and Drift-Orbit Pumping in Thermal Barriers; D.G. Braun and G.A. Emmert, February 1981 [presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, APS, Nov. 10-14, 1980, San Diego, CA]. (39 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-404 UVIEW - A Processor to Display the University of Wisconsin 25 Neutron-21 Gamma Group Cross Section Library; K.E. Hammer and G.A. Moses, March 1981. (44 pages, 2.5 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-410 Boundary Layer Corrections to Neoclassical Ripple Transport in Tokamaks; K-C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, March 1981. (35 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-412 A Parametric Cost Analysis for Tandem Mirror Reactors Similar to WITAMIR-I; E. Montalvo, J. Santarius, and I. Sviatoslavsky, March 1981. (31 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-417 Superconducting Materials - A Review of Recent Advances and Current Problems in Practical Materials; David C. Larbalestier, March 1981 [Invited review paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Magnet Technology, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, March 30-April 3, 1981; IEEE Trans. Magnetics 17, September 1981]. (22 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-406 A Model for the Deposition of X-Rays and Pellet Debris from Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets into a Cavity Gas; T.J. McCarville, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.A. Moses, April 1981. (43 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-409 Preliminary Magnet Design for a Stellarator Fusion Reactor; S.W. Van Sciver, J. Derr, A. Khalil, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, April 1981. (7 pages, 717 kB)
UWFDM-411 The Effect of Density Changes on the Energy and Ion Deposition Profiles; W.G. Wolfer and M.E. Benchikh-Lehocine, April 1981 (revised January 1985). (12 pages, 652 kB)
UWFDM-413 Enhanced Axial Erosion of the Sputter Cathode in SNICS; J.H. Billen, April 1981. (7 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-415 Comments on the Hydrogen Solubility Data for Liquid Lead, Lithium and Lithium-Lead Alloys and Review of a Tritium Solubility Model for Lithium-Lead Alloys; E.M. Larsen, M. Ortman, and K. Plute, May 1981. (18 pages, 868 kB)
UWFDM-416 Neoclassical Ripple Transport in Tokamaks; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, May 1981. (21 pages, 852 kB)
UWFDM-418 Radiation Induced Order-Disorder Transformation; R.H. Zee, May 1981 [Ph.D. thesis]. (220 pages, 7.9 MB)
UWFDM-420 The Effect of Microstructure on the Spatial Distribution of the Damage Produced by Ions in Solids; Hosny M. Attaya, May 1981 [Ph.D. thesis]. (213 pages, 6.0 MB)
UWFDM-407 Improvements in the FIRE Code for Simulating the Response of a Cavity Gas to Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Explosions; G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, and T.J. McCarville, June 1981 (revised February 1982). (91 pages, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-419 The DT Fuel Density in the Thermal Barrier of a Tandem Mirror Reactor; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, July 1981. (15 pages, 733 kB)
UWFDM-421 Transient Elastic Stresses in ICF Reactor First Wall Structural Systems; E.G. Lovell, R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, and G.A. Moses, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA (J. Nucl. Matls. 103 (1981) 115-120)]. (9 pages, 746 kB)
UWFDM-422 Vaporization and Melting of Materials in Fusion Devices; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 321-326 (1981)]. (9 pages, 819 kB)
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-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-426 The INPORT Concept - An Improved Method to Protect ICF Reactor First Walls; G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Moses, J. Sapp, M. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, and W.F. Vogelsang, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 103 (1981)]. (9 pages, 812 kB) [more]
UWFDM-427 TASKA, A Fusion Engineering Test Facility for the 1990's; G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, C.W. Maynard, J.F. Santarius, M.E. Sawan, W. Heinz, P. Komarek, W. Maurer, A. Suppan, and E. Opperman, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 67 (1982)]. (8 pages, 780 kB) [more]
UWFDM-428 Enhancement of Irradiation Creep in Pulsed Fusion Reactors; H. Gurol, N.M. Ghoniem, and W.G. Wolfer, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, (1981)]. (9 pages, 845 kB) [more]
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-430 Helium Bubble Formation and Swelling in Metals; B.B. Glasgow, A. Si-Ahmed, W.G. Wolfer, and F.A. Garner, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 981-986 (1981)]. (10 pages, 805 kB) [more]
UWFDM-431 The Irradiation of High Purity and Helium Doped Aluminum with Aluminum Ions; S.K. McLaurin, G.L. Kulcinski, and R.A. Dodd, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 1227 (1982)]. (8 pages, 688 kB)
UWFDM-433 The Effect of Irradiation Creep, Swelling, Wall Erosion and Embrittlement on the Fatigue Life of a Tokamak First Wall; R.D. Watson, R.R. Peterson, and W.G. Wolfer, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, (1981)]. (10 pages, 860 kB)
UWFDM-434 A Novel Approach to Compute the Relaxation Volume of Self-Interstitials in Metals; W.G. Wolfer, August 1981. (22 pages, 961 kB)
UWFDM-436 Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation on the Phase Stability of Several Copper-Base Alloys; Robert W. Knoll, August 1981 [Ph.D. thesis]. (305 pages, 12 MB)
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-414 Report to Sandia Laboratory on University of Wisconsin Fusion Engineering Program Design Activities for the Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility from August 1980 to August 1981; B. Badger, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, T.J. McCarville, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and M.A. Sweeney, September 1981. (77 pages, 2.6 MB) [more]
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-450 HIBALL - A Conceptual Heavy Ion Beam Driven Fusion Reactor Study; B. Badger, F. Arendt, K. Becker, K. Beckert, R. Bock, D. Boehne, I. Bozsik, J. Brezina, M. Dalle Donne, L. El-Guebaly, R. Engelstad, W. Eyrich, R. Froehlich, N. Ghoniem, B. Goel, A. Hassanein, D. Henderson, W. Hoebel, I. Hofmann, E. Hoyer, R. Keller, G. Kessler, A. Klein, R. Kreutz, G. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, K. Lee, K. Long, E. Lovell, N. Metzler, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, U. von Moellendorff, N. Moritz, G. Moses, R. Mueller, K. O'Brien, R. Peterson, K. Plute, L. Pong, R. Sanders, J. Sapp, M. Sawan, K. Schretzmann, T. Spindler, I. Sviatoslavsky, K. Symon, D. Sze, N. Tahir, W. Vogelsang, A. White, S. Witkowski, H. Wollnik, September 1981. (668 pages, 20 MB) [more]
UWFDM-432 A Numerical Path Sum Solution to Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations; M.F. Wehner and W.G. Wolfer, October 1981. (41 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-437 Fusion Materials - Adapting to Realistic Reactor Environments; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1981 [presented at 3rd Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 5-16, 1981]. (27 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-439 UWTOR-M, A Stellarator Power Reactor Utilizing Modular Coils; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, G.A. Emmert, L. El-Guebaly, A. Khalil, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, K. Yuan, October 1981 [presented at 3rd Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 5-16, 1981]. (21 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-440 WISECRACK - A Fracture Mechanics Code for Lifetime Analysis of High Heat Flux Components in Fusion Reactors; R.D. Watson and W.G. Wolfer, October 1981. (107 pages, 3.7 MB)
UWFDM-442 Low Density Cavity Gas Fireball Dynamics in the Light Ion Beam Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, K.J. Lee, and G.A. Moses, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 748 kB)