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-463 Electron Bounce Resonance Heating in a Mirror Confined Plasma; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, April 1982. (17 pages, 860 kB)
UWFDM-462 An Overview of TASKA - A Tandem Mirror Fusion Engineering Facility; G.L. Kulcinski and the Design Groups of University of Wisconsin, Fusion Power Associates, and Kernforschungzentrum Karlsruhe, March 15, 1982. (54 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-461 Availability Analysis of Fusion Power Plants; C.W. Maynard and Z. Musicki, March 1982. (93 pages, 3.1 MB)
UWFDM-460 The Impact of Inelastic Deformation, Radiation Effects, and Fatigue Damage on Fusion Reactor First Wall Lifetime; Robert David Watson, December 1981 [Ph.D thesis]. (369 pages, 10.0 MB)
UWFDM-459 Electron Cyclotron Heating in Weakly Relativistic, Finite-Beta Tandem Mirror Plasmas; K. Audenaerde and J. Scharer, March 1982. (39 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-458 Documentation for MF-FIRE, A Multifrequency Radiative Transfer Version of FIRE; G.A. Moses, T.J. McCarville, and R.R. Peterson, March 1982 (revised August 1984) [Computer Phys. Comm. 36, 249 (1985)]. (150 pages, 6.0 MB)
UWFDM-457 Report to Sandia Laboratory on University of Wisconsin Fusion Engineering Program Design Activities for the Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility from August 1981 to February 1982; B. Badger, R.L. Engelstad, A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, K.J. Lee, E.G. Lovell, T.J. McCarville, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and A. White, February 1982. (174 pages, 5.5 MB)
UWFDM-456 Choice of First Wall Material in the Light Ion Beam Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, and K.J. Lee, February 1982. (51 pages, 1.9 MB)
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-454 A User's Guide to the BRICE Code; H. Attaya, August 1982. (97 pages, 4.0 MB)
UWFDM-453 Monte Carlo Studies of Charge-Exchange First Wall Heat Fluxes from the TDF Neutral Beams; L. John Perkins, June 1983. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-452 On the Philosophy of the Self-Perturbation of a Generalized Neutron Detector in Neutron Spectrometry Applications; L.J. Perkins, March 1983. (22 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-451 Helium Bubble Formation in Cu, Ni and Cu-Ni Alloys; S.J. Zinkle, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, and K. Farrell, October 1982 [presented at the TMS-AIME Symposium, ``Radiation Damage Analysis for Fusion Reactors,'' St. Louis, MO, 24-28 October 1982]. (18 pages, 2.0 MB) [more]
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-449 Studies on Tritium Breeders for Fusion Reactors: I. The Preparation, Characterization and Melting Point of Lithium Oxide, II. The Preparation and Melting Point of Octalithium Zirconate; M.S. Ortman and E.M. Larsen, August 1982 (revised March 1983). (47 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-448 Conceptual Design for a Modular Stellarator Fusion Reactor Magnet; S.W. Van Sciver, A. Khalil, K.Y. Yuan, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 693 kB)
UWFDM-447 Plasma Engineering Considerations for an Inside-Barrier Tandem Mirror Test Facility; J.F. Santarius and G.A. Emmert, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (6 pages, 741 kB)
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-445 In-Situ Tritium Recovery from Li17Pb83 Breeding Blanket; D.K. Sze, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (7 pages, 756 kB)
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-443 Gas Dynamics and Heat Transfer Phenomena in Liquid Metal ICF Reactor First Surfaces; R.R. Peterson, D.K. Sze, A.M. Hassanein, and L. Pong, October 1981 [Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Engr. Prob. of Fusion Research, Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 1981]. (6 pages, 800 kB)
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)
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-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-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-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-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-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-435 The Effects of Neutron and Gamma Radiation Fields on the Electrical Breakdown Properties of Liquid and Gaseous Helium in Fusion Reactor Superconducting Magnet Systems; L.J. Perkins, September 1983. (64 pages, 2.7 MB)
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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-425 Alpha Particle Loss and Energy Deposition in Tandem Mirrors; J.F. Santarius and J.D. Callen, November 1981 [Phys. Fluids 26 (1983) 1037]. (31 pages, 968 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]