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-164 The Design of a Noncircular Plasma for the Argonne Tokamak Experimental Power Reactor; T.F. Yang and R.W. Conn, July 1976. (19 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-165 Transition and Recovery of Cryogenically Stable Conductors in Fusion Reactor Magnets; M.A. Hilal and R.W. Boom, June 1976 [presented at 9th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, 14-18 June 1976]. (9 pages, 761 kB)
UWFDM-166 The UWMAK-II Study and Magnet Design; R.W. Boom, R.W. Conn, and W.C. Young, June 1976 [presented at 9th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, 14-18 June 1976]. (10 pages, 881 kB)
UWFDM-167 Neutrons and Fusion; C.W. Maynard, July 1976 [to be published in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Interactions of Neutrons with Nuclei, Lowell, 6-9 July 1976]. (19 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-168 A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design Study - UWMAK-III; R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, R.G. Clemmer, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, J. Scharer, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, August 1976 [Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Berchtesgaden, Federal Republic of Germany, 6-13 October 1976]. (25 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-169 The Influence of Design Variations on CTR Blanket Neutronic Performance Using Variational Techniques; E. Cheng and R.W. Conn, June 1976 [accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering]. (53 pages, 2.0 MB)
UWFDM-170 DKR Radioactivity Calculation Code for Fusion Reactors; T.Y. Sung and W.F. Vogelsang, September 1976. (72 pages, 2.2 MB)
UWFDM-171 Decay Chain Data Library for Radioactivity Calculations; T.Y. Sung and W.F. Vogelsang, September 1976. (31 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-172 Uniformity of Illumination of Spherical Laser Fusion Targets; J.E. Howard, August 20, 1976. (49 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-173 TETR - A Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor to Qualify Materials and Blanket Components for Early DT Fusion Power Reactors; 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, R. Nygren, K. Okula, 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, and W.C. Young, September 1976. (23 pages, 2.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-174 MHD Equilibria for Plasmas in a Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor (TETR); T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, September 1976. (14 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-175 What is Past is Prologue: Future Directions in Tokamak Power Reactor Design Research; R.W. Conn, September 1976 [ANS Topical Meeting Paper]. (19 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-176 On the Stability of the Flow of Thin Liquid Lithium Films; J.E. Howard, October 1976. (25 pages, 960 kB)
UWFDM-177 The University of Wisconsin Contribution to the BCC Ion Correlation Experiment on Molybdenum; H.V. Smith, Jr., K.Y. Liou, G.L. Kulcinski, and P. Wilkes, October 1976. (28 pages, 5.2 MB)
UWFDM-178 Radioactivity and Associated Problems in Thermonuclear Reactors; W.F. Vogelsang, September 1976. (19 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-179 Swelling of Metals Under Pulsed Irradiation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (10 pages, 850 kB) [more]
UWFDM-180 Fully Dynamic Rate Theory (FDRT) Simulation of Radiation Induced Swelling of Metals; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (58 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-181 TRANSWELL (Version I) Computer Code Documentation; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (121 pages, 3.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-182 Heavy-Ion Induced Void and Loop Formation in High Purity Vanadium; William John Weber, December 1977 [Ph.D. thesis]. (222 pages, 33 MB)
UWFDM-183 Neutronic and Photonic Analysis of UWMAK-III Blanket and Shield in Noncircular Toroidal Geometry; Y. Gohar, C.W. Maynard, and E.T. Cheng, October 1976. (16 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-184 A Systematic Approach to the Radiation Damage Problem in Fission and Fusion Structural Alloys; R. Bullough, B.L. Eyre, and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1976. (30 pages, 1.7 MB) [more]
UWFDM-185 Gravity Circulated Solid Blanket Design for a Tokamak Fusion Reactor; D.K. Sze, D.C. Schluderberg, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, September 1976. (14 pages, 973 kB) [more]
UWFDM-186 Materials Problems and Possible Solutions for Near Term Tokamak Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, September 1976. (38 pages, 2.3 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-188 Classical Energy Deposition and Refraction in Spherical and Planar Laser Fusion Targets; James E. Howard, November 1976. (48 pages, 1.6 MB)
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-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-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-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-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-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-195 Laser Fusion Hydrodynamics Calculations; G.A. Moses, February 1977 [Nuclear Science and Engineering 64, 49 (1977)]. (52 pages, 2.0 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-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-198 Thermonuclear Burn Characteristics of Compressed DT Pellets; Gregory A. Moses, February 1977. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-199 Critical Assessment of Pulse Annealing; N. Ghoniem and G. Kulcinski, March 1977. (33 pages, 1.2 MB) [more]
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-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-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-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]