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-285 Effect of Nickel and Nitrogen on Void Formation in Ion Bombarded Vanadium; R.G. Lott, G.L. Kulcinski, P. Wilkes, and H.V. Smith, Jr., March 1979 [J. Nucl. Matls. 85 & 86, 751 (1979)]. (8 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-61 Effect of Neutron Irradiation on the Ductility of 316 Stainless Steel; R. Lott, April 1973. (36 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-608 Effect of Hydrogen on Void Production in Nickel; D.B. Bullen, G.L. Kulcinski and R.A. Dodd, November 1984 [presented at the First International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Tokyo, Japan, 3- 6 December 1984; to be published in J. Nucl. Materials]. (17 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-206 Effect of Experiments-Size Parameters on Monte Carlo Estimates in Fusion Reactor Blanket Simulations; M.M.H. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, June 1977. (42 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-513 Economic Design Optimization of the LiPb Blanket for the Mirror Advanced Reactor (MARS); L.J. Perkins and G.L. Kulcinski, May 1983 [Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (1983) 1107]. (9 pages, 811 kB)
UWFDM-1137 EVOLVE Lithium Tray Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis; M.H. Anderson, J.G. Murphy, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, M.L. Corradini, S. Malang, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 141 kB) [more]
UWFDM-933 EOSOPC - A Code for Computing the Equations of State and Opacities of High Temperature Plasmas with Detailed Atomic Models; Ping Wang, December 1993. (39 pages, 682 kB)
UWFDM-1109 Dynamics of the Earth-Moon-Sun System and How It Impacts the Solar Wind Implanted Hydrogen Distribution on the Moon; Michael J. Zalewski, October 1999 (revised January 2000). (13 pages, 215 kB)
UWFDM-287 Dynamics of Newtonian Annular Jets; D.D. Paul, January 1979 [M.S. thesis]. (72 pages, 15 MB)
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-510 Dynamic Stress Analysis of Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility Reaction Chambers; E.G. Lovell and R.L. Engelstad, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN (Nucl. Tech./Fusion 4 (2) (September 1983) 878-882)]. (8 pages, 648 kB)
UWFDM-655 Dynamic Response of Target Development Facility Spherical Chambers; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, October 1985. (16 pages, 787 kB)
UWFDM-1149 Dynamic Fragmentation of Brittle Materials: Analytical Mechanics-Based Models; W.J. Drugan, January 2001 [accepted for publication in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids]. (41 pages, 234 kB)
UWFDM-1035 Dynamic Effective Elastic Constants for Perforated Plates with Square or Triangular Penetration Patterns; D.L. Kaap, August 1997 [M.S. thesis]. (104 pages, 6.7 MB)
UWFDM-1126 Dry Wall Chamber Issues for the SOMBRERO Laser Fusion Power Plant; G.L. Kulcinski, R.R. Peterson, L.J. Wittenberg, E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, June 2000 [Presented at the IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Physics and Technology of Inertial Fusion Energy Target and Chambers, Madrid, Spain, 7-9 June 2000]. (17 pages, 944 kB)
UWFDM-163 Drift Surfaces in Linear and Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields; J.E. Howard, June 1976. (25 pages, 971 kB)
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-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-809 Dose Rate Calculations for a Light Ion Beam Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility; H.Y. Khater and M.E. Sawan, October 1989 [Presented at the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 804 kB)
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-517 Divertor Target Design for the UWTOR-M Stellarator Power Reactor; R. Sanders and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, May 1983 [presented at the Fifth ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 26-28 April 1983, Knoxville, TN]. (8 pages, 763 kB)
UWFDM-137 Divertor Criteria for a TCT: Some Reasons Why; A.T. Mense, October 1975. (16 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-602 Dislocation Evolution in Metals During Irradiation; W.G. Wolfer and B.B. Glasgow, October 1984 [submitted to Acta Met.]. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-4 Discussion of Basic Divertor Problems; A.T. Mense, January 1972. (23 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-304 Discrete Transfer Cross Section Expansion for Time Dependent Neutron Transport; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, October 1978 (revised January 1979) [Nuc. Sci. and Engr. 71, 100 (1979)]. January 1979)]. (27 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-846 Discrete Ordinates Solution of the Time Dependent Radiation Transport Equation on a Distributed Network of UNIX Workstations; Timothy J. Tautges and Osman Yasar, January 1991. (47 pages, 849 kB)
UWFDM-1316 Direct Conversion of High Energy Protons to Electricity Using a Solid-State PIN Junction Diode; D.R. Boris, Zhenqiang Ma, Hao-Chih Yuan, R.P. Ashley, J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, C. Dickerson, T. Allen, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (6 pages, 633 kB)
UWFDM-607 Differences Between Neutron Damage in Inertial and Magnetic Confinement Fusion Materials Test Facilities; G.L. Kulcinski and M.E. Sawan, November 1984 [presented at the First International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Tokyo, Japan, 3-6 December 1984]. (23 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1267 Diagnostic Study of Steady State Advanced Fuel (D-D and D-3He) Fusion in an IEC Device; Krupakar Murali Subramanian, December 2004 [Ph.D. thesis]. (258 pages, 8.5 MB)
UWFDM-1047 Diagnosing Plasma Conditions in Targets Irradiated by Intense Light Ion Beams Using K-alpha Satellite Line Intensity Ratios; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, J.E. Bailey, T.A. Mehlhorn, June 1997 [submitted to J. Quant. Spectr. Rad. Trans.]. (36 pages, 597 kB) [more]
UWFDM-917 Diagnosing Conditions in Proton Beam-Heated Plasmas Using Fluorine K-alpha Emission and Absorption Spectra; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, July 1993. (41 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1420 Developments in 3-D Nuclear Analysis: Model Visualization and Robust Activation Analysis; Lucas Mynsberge, January 2014 [M.S. thesis]. (114 pages, 2.4 MB)
UWFDM-1061 Development of a Time-Dependent View Factor Code for Studying Radiation Symmetry in ICF Hohlraums; J.J. MacFarlane, February 1998. (57 pages, 919 kB)
UWFDM-1237 Development of a Dry Wall Concept for Laser IFE Chambers; J.P. Blanchard and C.J. Martin, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 585-590]. (8 pages, 650 kB)
UWFDM-1341 Development of a Driver Program to Evaluate Diffusion Coefficients; E.P. Marriott, September 2005. (21 pages, 436 kB)
UWFDM-1100 Development of X-ray Tracer Diagnostics for Radiatively-Driven Ablator Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, D.H. Cohen, Ping Wang, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, P.A. Jaanimagi, O.L. Landen, R.E. Olson, T.J. Murphy, G.R. Magelssen, N.D. Delamater, June 1999. (20 pages, 561 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1069 Development of Soft X-ray Tracer Diagnostics for Hohlraum Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, D.H. Cohen, P. Wang, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, C.A. Back, O.L. Landen, R.J. Leeper, R.E. Olson, T. Nash, April 1998. (25 pages, 481 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1289 Development and Use of Tools for Modularization of Activation Programs; Milad Fatenejad, December 2005 [Honors in Research thesis]. (48 pages, 880 kB)
UWFDM-1266 Development Path for Z-Pinch IFE; C. Olson, G. Rochau, S. Slutz, C. Morrow, R. Olson, M. Cuneo, D. Hanson, G. Bennett, T. Sanford, J. Bailey, W. Stygar, R. Vesey, T. Mehlhorn, K. Struve, M. Mazarakis, M. Savage, T. Pointon, M. Kiefer, S. Rosenthal, K. Cochrane, L. Schneider, S. Glover, K. Reed, D. Schroen, C. Farnum, M. Modesto, D. Oscar, L. Chhabildas, J. Boyes, V. Vigil, R. Keith, M. Turgeon, B. Cipiti, E. Lindgren, V. Dandini, H. Tran, D. Smith, D. McDaniel, J. Quintenz, M.K. Matzen, J.P. VanDevender, W. Gauster, L. Shephard, M. Walck, T. Renk, T. Tanaka, M. Ulrickson, W. Meier, J. Latkowski, R. Moir, R. Schmitt, S. Reyes, R. Abbott, R. Peterson, G. Pollock, P. Ottinger, J. Schumer, P. Peterson, D. Kammer, G. Kulcinski, L. El-Guebaly, G. Moses, I. Sviatoslavsky, M. Sawan, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J. Oakley, P. Meekunnasombat, J. De Groot, N. Jensen, M. Abdou, A. Ying, P. Calderoni, N. Morley, S. Abdel-Khalik, C. Dillon, C. Lascar, D. Sadowski, R. Curry, K. McDonald, M. Barkey, W. Szaroletta, R. Gallix, N. Alexander, W. Rickman, C. Charman, H. Shatoff, D. Welch, D. Rose, P. Panchuk, D. Louie, S. Dean, A. Kim, S. Nedoseev, E. Grabovsky, A. Kingsep, V. Smirnov, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 633-640]. (11 pages, 966 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1357 Deuterium-Fueled Power Plants with Tritium Suppression; J. Sheffield and M.E. Sawan, April 2008 [published in Fusion Science and Technology, 53 (Apr. 2008) 780-788]. [more]