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-1151 Progress and Critical Issues for IFE Blanket and Chamber Research; B.G. Logan, W.R. Meier, R.W. Moir, M. Abdou, P.F. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, M.S. Tillack, J.F. Latkowski, D. Petti, K.R. Schultz, A. Nobile, December 2000 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 51-52 (2000) 1095-1101.]. [more]
UWFDM-759 Lithium-Lead/Water Interactions and Associated Structural Responses in a Fusion System; S.W. Lomperski, M.L. Corradini, February 1988. (37 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-851 Molten-Lithium/Water Interaction Experiments: Explosive Reactions and Reaction Rate Measurements; S.W. Lomperski, May 1991 [Ph.D. thesis]. (191 pages, 7.6 MB)
UWFDM-61 Effect of Neutron Irradiation on the Ductility of 316 Stainless Steel; R. Lott, April 1973. (36 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-63 Transmutation Effects in Nuclear Reactors; R. Lott, March 1973. (60 pages, 2.1 MB)
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-280 The Effect of Nickel and Nitrogen on Void Formation in Vanadium; Randy George Lott, July 1979 [Ph.D. thesis]. (196 pages, 13 MB)
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-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-585 Hydrostatic Instability of Target Development Facility Reaction Chamber; E.G. Lovell, R.L. Engelstad and G.A. Moses, June 1984. (20 pages, 912 kB)
UWFDM-125 Superconducting Toroidal Field Magnets for a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor; J.W. Lue and R.W. Conn, May 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (24 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-145 Superconductive Energy Storage for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; J.W. Lue, H.A. Peterson, and R.W. Boom, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 819 kB)
UWFDM-1242 Optimization of Stellarator Reactor Parameters; J.F. Lyon, L.P. Ku, P. Garabedian, L. El-Guebaly, L. Bromberg and the ARIES Team, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 414-421]. (11 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-723 Energy Deposition and Shock Wave Evolution from Laser-Generated Plasma Expansions; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, May 1987 [Phys. Fluids B1 (1989) 635]. (44 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-750 IONMIX - A Code for Computing the Equation of State and Radiative Properties of LTE and Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1987 [Comp. Phys. Commun. 56 (1989) 259]. (52 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-761 Non-LTE Effects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Chambers; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, April 1988 [Nucl. Fusion 29 (1989) 27]. (32 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-776 Analysis of Physical Processes in ICF Target Chambers: Application to the Laboratory Microfusion Facility; J.J. MacFarlane, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, October 1988 [presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 9-13 October 1988, Salt Lake City UT; Fusion Tech. 15, 557]. (9 pages, 848 kB)
UWFDM-793 Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Cavity Analysis: Report for the Period 1 July 1988 to 30 June 1989; J.J. MacFarlane, R.R. Peterson, M.L. Corradini, G.A. Moses, K.H. Bang, J.J. Barry, July 1989. (156 pages, 4.6 MB)
UWFDM-807 Energy Deposition and First Wall Response in the SIRIUS-T Target Chamber; J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1989 [Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2-6 October 1989, Knoxville TN]. (7 pages, 565 kB)
UWFDM-821 Non-LTE Radiation Transport in Moderate Density Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and G.A. Moses, January 1990 [Lasers &\ Part. Beams 8 (1990) 729]. (24 pages, 741 kB)
UWFDM-822 A Model for Computing Radiation Transport in Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and G.A. Moses, February 1990. (50 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-831 Implications of Non-LTE Buffer Gas Effects on ICF Target Chamber Design; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and G.A. Moses, October 1990 [Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 7-11 October 1990, Oak Brook IL; Fusion Tech. 19 (1990) 703]. (9 pages, 609 kB)
UWFDM-847 Numerical Simulation of Non-LTE Radiative Transfer and Atomic Physics Effects in Plasmas Created by Intense Proton Beams; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, D.L. Henderson, January 1991. (95 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-848 Numerical Simulation of Emission Spectra from Ion Beam-Heated Aluminum Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, January 1991 [Lasers &\ Part. Beams 10 (1992) 349]. (27 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-853 Radiative Properties and Line Trapping Effects in Post-Explosion Inertial Fusion Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, June 1991 [Phys. Fluids B 3 (1991) 3494]. (44 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-858 Non-LTE Radiative Transfer with Lambda-Acceleration: Convergence Properties Using Exact Full and Diagonal Lambda-Operators; J.J. MacFarlane, August 1991 [Astronomy and Astrophysics 264 (1992) 153]. (28 pages, 746 kB)
UWFDM-873 Theoretical Diagnostics Analysis in Support of KALIF Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, D.L. Henderson, January 1992. (126 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-877 Aluminum K-Shell Line Emission as a Diagnostic in Light Ion Beam Fusion Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, T.A. Mehlhorn, J. Bailey, R.J. Dukart, March 1992 [presented at the 9th Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Santa Fe NM, 15-19 March 1992; Rev. of Sci. Instrum. 63 (1992) 5062]. (16 pages, 710 kB) [more]
UWFDM-903 Effects of Shock-Produced X-Rays on the Ionization Balance in the Wind of epsilon Ori; J.J. MacFarlane, M. Wolff, P. Wang, August 1992 [Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Conference on Massive Stars, in Massive Stars: Their Lives in the Interstellar Medium (1993)]. (5 pages, 905 kB)
UWFDM-906 Analysis of K-alpha\ Line Emission from Aluminum Plasmas Created by Intense Proton Beams; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, J. Bailey, T.A. Mehlhorn, R.J. Dukart, R.C. Mancini, September 1992 (revised November 1992) [Phys. Rev. E (1993)]. (39 pages, 976 kB) [more]
UWFDM-910 Numerical Simulation of High Energy Density Plasmas in Support of KALIF Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, D.L. Henderson, O. Yasar, January 1993. (58 pages, 850 kB)
UWFDM-912 Effects of Coronal and Shock-Produced X-Rays on the Ionization Distribution in Hot Star Winds; J.J. MacFarlane, W.L. Waldron, M.F. Corcoran, M.J. Wolff, P. Wang, J.P. Cassinelli, March 1993 [Astrophysical Journal (1993)]. (36 pages, 574 kB) [more]
UWFDM-913 Theoretical Spectral Diagnostic Analyses in Support of PBFA-II Beam-Plasma Interaction Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, March 1993. (143 pages, 6.7 MB)
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-922 Effects of X-Rays on the Ionization State of Be Star Winds; J.J. MacFarlane, October 1993 [Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 162: Pulsation, Rotation, and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars, 5-8 October 1993, Juan Les Pins, France]. (6 pages, 527 kB)
UWFDM-931 NLTERT - A Code for Computing the Radiative Properties of Non-LTE Plasmas; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1993. (66 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-934 Constraints on Hot Star X-Ray Source Characteristics from Combined Analysis of X-Ray and UV Observations; J.J. MacFarlane, August 1993 [Proceedings of the International Workshop on Instability and Variability of Hot Star Winds, Isle-aux-Coudres, Québec, 23-27 August 1993]. (8 pages, 684 kB)
UWFDM-937 Collisional-Radiative Equilibrium (CRE) Model for the CONRAD Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1993. (47 pages, 759 kB)
UWFDM-941 Plasma Diagnostics Using K-alpha Satellite Emission Spectroscopy in Light Ion Beam Fusion Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, J.E. Bailey, T.A. Mehlhorn, R.J. Dukart, January 1994 [submitted for publication to Lasers and Particle Beams as part of the 6th International Workshop on Atomic Physics for Ion Driven Fusion, 8-12 November 1993, Santa Fe NM]. (20 pages, 761 kB) [more]
UWFDM-943 Plasma Spectral Diagnostic Analyses in Support of KALIF Experiments; J.J. MacFarlane and P. Wang, January 1994. (51 pages, 992 kB)