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-225 A Toroidal Field Magnet System Utilizing Normal Metal Trimming Coils; P.F. Michaelson, S.O. Hong, W.C. Young, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and R.W. Conn, October 1977. (9 pages, 941 kB)
UWFDM-224 Resistance to Strain Degradation in Preliminary UWMAK TF Coil Conductors for Fusion Reactors; S.O. Hong, P.F. Michaelson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, and W.C. Young, November 1977. (21 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-223 Thermal, Mechanical and Neutronic Design Considerations for a Graphite Structure Li2O Cooled Blanket; D.K. Sze, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.T. Cheng, and H.I. Avci, October 1977. (18 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-222 Tokamak Divertor Impact on the Toroidal Field Magnet and Vacuum System; Y. Gohar and C.W. Maynard, October 1977. (17 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-221 Response of First Walls in Inertial Confinement Reactors to Thermonuclear Radiation; T.O. Hunter, S.I. Abdel-Khalik and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1977 [2nd IAEA Conference on Fusion Reactor Design, Madison, WI, October 1977, p. 573 (1978)]. (19 pages, 863 kB)
UWFDM-220 SOLASE - A Conceptual Laser Fusion Reactor Design; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, F. Beranek, E.T. Cheng, G.W. Cooper, R.B. Droll, T. Henderson, J. Howard, T.O. Hunter, E.M. Larsen, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.R. Magelssen, C.W. Maynard, K.R. Okula, M. Ortman, M. Ragheb, W.B. Rensel, D. Solomon, R. Spencer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, R.D. Watson, and W.G. Wolfer, December 1977. (1122 pages, 34 MB) [more]
UWFDM-219 A Poloidal Divertor Model for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; A. Mense, January 1977 [Ph.D. thesis]. (265 pages, 9.1 MB)
UWFDM-218 Calculated Neutron and Gamma Irradiation Response of Actively Cooled Mirrors for Laser Fusion Power Reactors; M.M.H. Ragheb and C.W. Maynard, October 1977. (42 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-217 Description of the Response of Materials to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation - Part II; T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, September 1977. (101 pages, 2.7 MB)
UWFDM-216 POICOU: A Point Plasma Code Including Profile Effects for Tokamak Power Reactors; L. Lao, August 1977. (21 pages, 887 kB)
UWFDM-215 Radiation Transport; G. Magelssen, July 1977. (52 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-214 Imaging Properties of Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors; J. Howard, June 1977. (46 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-213 Quasi-Linear Model for Ion Cyclotron Heating; J. Kesner, June 1977. (33 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-212 New Analysis of First Wall Lifetime Considerations for Fusion Reactors; W. Wolfer and R.W. Conn, March 1977. (34 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-211 PL3 - A 3-Dimensional Plotting Program; N. Ghoniem and E. Anderson, June 1977. (40 pages, 1.4 MB) [more]
UWFDM-210 Time Dependent Neutronics for Laser Fusion Blanket and Materials Analysis; F. Beranek and R.W. Conn, June 1977. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-209 Validation Study of UNIVAC-1110 Version of the CTR-PMCS-Nuclear Data Library & Codes Package; Y. Gohar, C.W. Maynard, and T. Wu, June 1977. (64 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-208 Comparison of Liquid ISSECs: Li, Pb and Pb4Li for Use in Laser Fusion Reactors; H.I. Avci and G.L. Kulcinski, May 27, 1977. (25 pages, 970 kB)
UWFDM-207 Monte Carlo Study of Asymmetry Effects in a Lithium Oxide Blanket for a Laser Driven Reactor; M.H. Ragheb, E.T. Cheng, and R.W. Conn, June 1977. (32 pages, 1.4 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-205 The Effect of a Liquid ISSEC on Radiation Damage Parameters in Laser Fusion Reactor First Walls; H.I. Avci and G.L. Kulcinski, April 10, 1977. (37 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-204 Reactor Aspects of Laser Fusion; R.W. Conn, November 9, 1977 [presented at International Scientific Forum on an Acceptable Future of Nuclear Energy for the World - Nov. 7- 11, 1977, Coral Gables, Florida]. (21 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-203 The Importance of Material and Irradiation Parameters on Void Growth in Metals - Part I: The Effect of Displacement Rate and Cascade Efficiency; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977. (128 pages, 4.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-202 The Use and Performance of Graphite and Metal ISSECs in Tokamak Fusion Reactors; H.I. Avci, Y. Gohar, T.Y. Sung, and G.L. Kulcinski, April 1977 [Nucl. Engr. and Design 45, 285 (1978)]. (104 pages, 3.5 MB)
UWFDM-201 Fluid Simulation of Large Tokamak Plasmas Using a Variable Spatial Mesh, Variable Time Step Implicit Procedure; W.A. Houlberg and R.W. Conn, March 1977 [presented at the Mathematics and Computations Division ANS Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March 28-30, 1977]. (34 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-200 Calibration of the Fully Dynamic Rate Theory Using the Computer Code TRANSWELL; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, March 1977. (68 pages, 2.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-199 Critical Assessment of Pulse Annealing; N. Ghoniem and G. Kulcinski, March 1977. (33 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-198 Thermonuclear Burn Characteristics of Compressed DT Pellets; Gregory A. Moses, February 1977. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-197 Assessment of Surface-Heating Problems in Laser-Fusion Reactors; S.I. Abdel-Khalik and T.O. Hunter, February 1977. (45 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-196 Description of the Response of Reactor First Walls to Pulsed Thermonuclear Radiation (Part I); T.O. Hunter and G.L. Kulcinski, February 1977. (135 pages, 4.4 MB)
UWFDM-195 Laser Fusion Hydrodynamics Calculations; G.A. Moses, February 1977 [Nuclear Science and Engineering 64, 49 (1977)]. (52 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-194 PHD-IV - A Plasma Hydrodynamics - Thermonuclear Burn - Radiative Transfer Computer Code; G.A. Moses, G. Magelssen, R. Israel, and T. Spindler, February 1977 (revised January 1982) [not widely distributed].
UWFDM-193 Comparative One-Dimensional Monte Carlo and Discrete Ordinates Neutronics and Photonics Analysis for a Laser Fusion Reactor Blanket with Li2O Particles as Coolant and Breeder; M.M.H. Ragheb, E.T. Cheng, and R.W. Conn, January 1977. (42 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-192 Effect of Particle Histories Termination Parameters on Monte Carlo Estimates in Fusion Reactor Blanket Scoping Studies; M.M.H. Ragheb, Y.M. Gohar, and C.W. Maynard, February 1977. (43 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-191 TETR: A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; B. Badger, G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, C.W. Maynard, K. Audenaerde, H. Avci, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, E. Cheng, J.R. Conrad, S. Dalhed, G.A. Emmert, B. Feinberg, Y. Gohar, S. Hong, J. Kesner, E. Larsen, P.F. Michaelson, K. Okula, M. Ragheb, E. Ramer, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, T. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, P. Wilkes, W.R. Wilkes, L. Wittenberg, J. Wrazel, T. Wu, T. Yang, J. Young, and W.C. Young, February 1977. (940 pages, 32 MB) [more]
UWFDM-190 Studies of the Technological Problems of Laser Driven Fusion Reactors - Annual Report I; R.W. Conn, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, G.A. Moses, E.T. Cheng, G. Cooper, J. Howard, G.L. Kulcinski, E. Larsen, E. Lovell, G. Magelssen, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W. Wolfer, F. Beranek, S.K. Chang, R. Droll, N. Ghoniem, T. Hunter, M. Ortman, R. Spencer, G. Shuy, and M. Ragheb, December 1976. (528 pages, 16 MB) [more]
UWFDM-189 A High Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum Facility for Heavy Ion Simulation of Neutron Radiation Damage to Potential Reactor Materials; H.V. Smith, Jr. and R.G. Lott, January 1977. (27 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-188 Classical Energy Deposition and Refraction in Spherical and Planar Laser Fusion Targets; James E. Howard, November 1976. (48 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-187 Neutronics Studies of the Gas-Carried Li2O Cooling/Breeding Fusion Reactor Blanket and Shield; E.T. Cheng, T.Y. Sung, and D.K. Sze, February 1976. (24 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-186 Materials Problems and Possible Solutions for Near Term Tokamak Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, September 1976. (38 pages, 2.3 MB)