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-501 H+ and He+ Accelerator Facility for Fusion Reactor Materials Simulation Studies; R. Sindelar and D.B. Bullen, April 1983. (17 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-502 A Self-Consistent ECRH Ray Tracing Calculation for a Tandem Mirror Transport Code; D.G. Braun and G.A. Emmert, April 1983. (69 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-525 New Challenges in Fusion Research for the Materials Scientist; G.L. Kulcinski, April 1983 [presented at International Conference on Dimensional Stability and Mechanical Behaviour of Irradiated Metals and Alloys, 11-14 April 1983, Brighton, England]. (12 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-527 Progress in Fusion Research, 1978-1982, Technical Summary; B. Badger, M.L. Corradini, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, E.G. Lovell, C.W. Maynard, G.A. Moses, L.J. Perkins, R.R. Peterson, K.E. Plute, J. Santarius, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, S.W. Van Sciver, W.F. Vogelsang, and W.G. Wolfer, April 1983 (revised September 1983). (51 pages, 3.3 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-503 Proceedings of Polarized Fusion Fuel Workshop; G.L. Kulcinski, L.W. Anderson, H.H. Barschall, J.D. Callen, and W. Haeberli, March 1983. (84 pages, 3.4 MB)
UWFDM-497 Code Package for Ion Transport in Materials: BRICE, E-DEP, HERAD, MARLOWE, TRIM; H. Attaya, December 1982. (12 pages, 647 kB)
UWFDM-498 Modular Coil Design for UWTOR-M Stellarator Reactor; K.Y. Yuan, R. Sanders, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and S.W. Van Sciver, December 1982 [presented at the 1982 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Knoxville, TN, November 30 - December 3, 1982]. (8 pages, 724 kB)
UWFDM-634 A Numerical Model for Simulating the Dynamic Response of an Inertial Confinement Fusion Cavity Gas to a Target Explosion; Thomas J. McCarville, December 1982 [Ph.D. thesis]. (183 pages, 5.2 MB)
UWFDM-487 Modal Analysis of Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Vessels; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, November 1982 [presented at the First International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL, November 8-10, 1982]. (10 pages, 852 kB)
UWFDM-491 Calculated and Measured Emittance of a Sputter-Type Negative-Ion Source; James H. Billen, November 1982 [Invited paper presented at the Seventh Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, November 8-10, 1982]. (8 pages, 840 kB)
UWFDM-495 The Effect of Preinjected Gas Atoms on Depth Dependent Damage in Self-Ion Irradiated Nickel; D.B. Bullen, J.H. Billen, and G.L. Kulcinski, November 1982 [to be published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science; presented at the Seventh Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, 8-10 November 1982]. (7 pages, 730 kB)
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-488 A Literature Review of Radiation Damage Studies of Nickel, Nickel-Aluminum and Nickel-Silicon Alloys; D.B. Bullen, October 1982. (47 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-489 Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy by the University of Wisconsin Fusion Engineering Program; various authors, October 1982 [Meeting held in Knoxville, TN, 26-28 April 1983]. (48 pages, 3.0 MB)
UWFDM-490 Variational Calculation of the Trapping Rate in Thermal Barriers; X.Z. Li and G.A. Emmert, October 1982. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-492 Computer Modelling of a Sputter-Type Negative Ion Source; James H. Billen, October 1982 [presented at the 1982 Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), Seattle, Washington, October 6-8, 1982]. (17 pages, 798 kB)
UWFDM-550 UWTOR-M - A Conceptual Modular Stellarator Power Reactor; B. Badger, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, L. El-Guebaly, K.J. Lee, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, and K.Y. Yuan, October 1982. (449 pages, 14 MB)
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-477 WHISTEL: A Stellarator Transport Code; G.A. Emmert, K.J. Lee, and A. Bailey, September 1982. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-479 User's Manual for ``HERAD'' - ``Heterogeneous Radiation Damage'' Monte Carlo Computer Code; H. Attaya and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1982. (58 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-480 Progress in Modular Stellarator Fusion Power Reactor Conceptual Designs; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.W. Van Sciver, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Emmert, D.T. Anderson, A.W. Bailey, J.D. Callen, J.A. Derr, L. El-Guebaly, K.J. Lee, J.L. Shohet, D.K. Sze, R.C. Sanders, J. Tataronis, and K.Y. Yuan, C.G. Bathke, R.L. Miller, and R.A. Krakowski, September 1982 [9th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, IAEA Mtg., Baltimore, MD, September 1-8, 1982, paper IAEA-CN-41/E-3]. (16 pages, 947 kB) [more]
UWFDM-481 Effect of Radiation-Induced Segregation on Void Nucleation; A. Si-Ahmed and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [11th ASTM Symposium on Effects of Radiation on Materials, Scottsdale, AZ, 28-30 June 1982]. (19 pages, 964 kB)
UWFDM-482 On Radiation-Induced Segregation and the Compositional Dependence of Swelling in Fe-Ni-Cr Alloys; W.G. Wolfer, F.A. Garner, and L.E. Thomas, September 1982 [11th ASTM Symposium on Effects of Radiation on Materials, Scottsdale, AZ, 28-30 June 1982; ASTM-STP-782, 1023-1041 (1981)]. (23 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-483 Drift Forces on Vacancies and Interstitials in Alloys with Radiation-Induced Segregation; W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [J. Nucl. Matls. 00, 0 (1982)]. (46 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-484 A Model for the Evolution of Network Dislocation Density in Irradiated Metals; F.A. Garner and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [ASTM-STP-782, 1073-1087 (1982)]. (27 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-486 Frequency Dependent X-Ray Fluences from a High Yield Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Explosion in a Gas Filled Chamber; G.A. Moses, September 1982. (28 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-493 Simulation of Rapid Heating in Fusion Reactor First Walls Using the Green's Function; A.M. Hassanein and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1982 [J. of Heat Transfer 106, 483 (1984)]. (26 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-494 Surface Melting and Evaporation During Plasma Disruptions in Magnetic Fusion Reactors; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, September 1982 [Nuclear Engr. and Design 1, 307 (1984)]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)
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-454 A User's Guide to the BRICE Code; H. Attaya, August 1982. (97 pages, 4.0 MB)
UWFDM-474 Neoclassical Flows and Transport in Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, July 1982 (revised March 1983) [Phys. Fluids 26, 3315 (1983)]. (47 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-476 Bubble Screen Shielding of Water Pressure Waves Emitted by a Harmonically Pulsating Vessel; K.J. O'Brien and G.A. Moses, July 1982. (54 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-478 Analysis and Design of ICF Target Development Facility First Wall Reinforcing Structures; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, July 1982. (35 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-466 Thermal Barrier Trapping Current in a Tandem Mirror; R. Carrera and J.D. Callen, June 1982. (45 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-475 Design and Use of 14-MeV Neutron Sources; H.H. Barschall, June 1982 [prepared for Symposium on Neutron Induced Reactions, June 21-25, 1982, Smolenice, Czechoslovakia (Proc. Europhysics Topical Conference Physics &\ Applications 10 (1982) 279)]. (8 pages, 694 kB)
UWFDM-467 Plastic and Creep Deformation of First Wall Components Following a Plasma Disruption; R.R. Peterson and W.G. Wolfer, May 1982 [presented at the 5th Inter national Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices]. (14 pages, 747 kB)
UWFDM-468 Dynamics of Melting, Evaporation, and Resolidification of Materials Exposed to Plasma Disruptions; A.M. Hassanein, G.L. Kulcinski, and W.G. Wolfer, May 1982 [presented at the 5th International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices; J. Nucl. Matls. 111 & 112, 554-559 (1982)]. (20 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-470 On Melt Layer Stability Following A Plasma Disruption; W.G. Wolfer and A.M. Hassanein, May 1982 [J. Nucl. Matls. 111 & 112, 560-565 (1982)]. (23 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-471 Nucleation of Voids in Materials Supersaturated with Mobile Interstitials, Vacancies, and Divacancies; W.G. Wolfer and A. Si-Ahmed, May 1982 [Phil. Mag. A46, 723-736 (1982)]. (32 pages, 1.2 MB)