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-100 Written Review of Informal Meeting on Impurity Control Toroidal Devices; A.T. Mense, April 1974. (72 pages, 23 MB)
UWFDM-111 Mirror Instabilities in Divertors; A.T. Mense, J.D. Callen, and G.A. Emmert, September 1974. (15 pages, 802 kB) [more]
UWFDM-133 A Brief Note on Deriving the Trapped Ion Mode Dispersion Relation Using a Fluid Model; A.T. Mense, July 1975. (19 pages, 911 kB)
UWFDM-137 Divertor Criteria for a TCT: Some Reasons Why; A.T. Mense, October 1975. (16 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-219 A Poloidal Divertor Model for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; A. Mense, January 1977 [Ph.D. thesis]. (265 pages, 9.1 MB)
UWFDM-1403 Prospects for Pilot Plants Based on the Tokamak, Spherical Tokamak and Stellarator; J.E. Menard, L. Bromberg, T. Brown, T. Burgess, D. Dix, L. El-Guebaly, T. Gerrity, R.J. Goldston, R.J. Hawryluk, R. Kastner, C. Kessel, S. Malang, J. Minervini, G.H. Neilson, C.L. Neumeyer, S. Prager, M. Sawan, J. Sheffield, A. Sternlieb, L. Waganer, D. Whyte and M. Zarnstorff, October 2011 [published in Nucl. Fusion 51 (2011) 103014 (13pp)]. [more]
UWFDM-1143 The Potential for Fusion Power to Mitigate U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions; P.J. Meier and G.L. Kulcinski, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (8 pages, 113 kB)
UWFDM-1181 Life-Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems and Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysis; Paul J. Meier, August 2002 [Ph.D. thesis]. (161 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1184 Life-Cycle Energy Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Gas Turbine Power; P.J. Meier and G.L. Kulcinski, December 2000. (46 pages, 832 kB)
UWFDM-1185 Life-Cycle Energy Requirements and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics; P.J. Meier and G.L. Kulcinski, April 2002. (39 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-1264 U.S. Electric Industry Response to Carbon Constraint: A Life-Cycle Assessment of Supply-Side Alternatives; P.J. Meier, P.P.H. Wilson, G.L. Kulcinski, P.L. Denholm, September 2004 [to be published in Energy Policy, 2004].
UWFDM-1161 Analysis of Experimental Behavior of Molten SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; P. Meekunnasombat, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, December 2001. (83 pages, 4.6 MB)
UWFDM-1215 Experimental Investigation of a Shock-Accelerated Liquid Layer with Imaging and Pressure Measurement; P. Meekunnasombat, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 351 (2003)]. (8 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1239 Protection of IFE First Wall Surfaces from Impulsive Loading by Multiple Liquid Layers; P. Meekunnasombat, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1170-1174]. (8 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-431 The Irradiation of High Purity and Helium Doped Aluminum with Aluminum Ions; S.K. McLaurin, G.L. Kulcinski, and R.A. Dodd, August 1981 [paper presented at Second Topical Mtg. on Fusion Reactor Materials, August 9-12, 1981, Seattle, WA; J. Nucl. Matls. 103 & 104, 1227 (1982)]. (8 pages, 688 kB)
UWFDM-569 Radiation Damage from Heavy Ion Bombardment in High Purity Aluminum; Stephen Keith McLaurin, December 1984 [Ph.D. thesis]. (203 pages, 7.8 MB)
UWFDM-282 The Response of Stainless Steel to the Pellet Debris in a Laser Fusion Reactor; T. McCarville, A.M. Hassanein, and G.L. Kulcinski, December 1978 [5th International SMiRT Conference, Berlin, Vol. N., P.N. 2.5/4, 1979]. (59 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-405 An Analytical Model for the Motion and Radiative Response of a Low Density Inertial Confinement Fusion Buffer Gas; T.J. McCarville, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.A. Moses, January 1981. (28 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-406 A Model for the Deposition of X-Rays and Pellet Debris from Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets into a Cavity Gas; T.J. McCarville, G.L. Kulcinski, and G.A. Moses, April 1981. (43 pages, 1.8 MB)
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-22 Analytical Approximation to the Fusion Cross Section; D.G. McAlees, July 1972. (7 pages, 525 kB)
UWFDM-29 The Three Regimes of Neoclassical Diffusion; D.G. McAlees, September 1972. (7 pages, 540 kB)
UWFDM-72 Alpha Particle Containment; D.G. McAlees, September 9, 1973. (10 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-78 Heating a Large CTR Tokamak by Neutral Beam Injection; David G. McAlees and Robert W. Conn, December 1973. (47 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-17 Neutron and Gamma Physics Problems in Fusion Reactors; C.W. Maynard and M.A. Abdou, July 1972. (17 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-46 University of Wisconsin Tokamak Power Reactor Design; C.W. Maynard, R.W. Conn, and H.K. Forsen, May 1973 [presented at the VI European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, July 30-August 3, 1973, Moscow, USSR]. (8 pages, 746 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-461 Availability Analysis of Fusion Power Plants; C.W. Maynard and Z. Musicki, March 1982. (93 pages, 3.1 MB)
UWFDM-361 Design Procedure of the Central Cell Solenoids for the Tandem Mirror Reactor WITAMIR-I; W. Maurer, D.C. Larbalestier, and I. Sviatoslavsky, May 1980. (23 pages, 862 kB) [more]
UWFDM-408 Magnets for the Tandem Mirror Fusion Power Reactor WITAMIR-I; W. Maurer, D.C. Larbalestier, and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, March 1981 [Presented at the 7th International Conference on Magnet Technology, Karlsruhe, West Germany, March 30-April 3, 1981; to appear in IEEE Transactions and Magnetics 17, September 1981]. (8 pages, 747 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1306 ARIES-CS Loss of Coolant and Loss of Flow Accident Analysis; C.J. Martin and L.A. El-Guebaly, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (8 pages, 584 kB)
UWFDM-1321 Modeling and Analysis of Loss of Coolant and Loss of Flow Accidents in the ARIES-CS Fusion Power Plant; C.J. Martin and L.A. El-Guebaly, February 2007. (15 pages, 691 kB)
UWFDM-1416 ARIES-ACT-1 Loss of Coolant/Flow Accident Thermal Analysis; C.J. Martin and L.A. El-Guebaly, October 2013. (14 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-1417 ARIES-ACT-1 Plasma Disruption Magnetic and Structural Analysis; C.J. Martin and J.P. Blanchard, February 2014. (23 pages, 6.2 MB)
UWFDM-1341 Development of a Driver Program to Evaluate Diffusion Coefficients; E.P. Marriott, September 2005. (21 pages, 436 kB)
UWFDM-1395 Improvements to the Helium Flow Path in the US DCLL ITER Test Blanket Module; E.P. Marriott, June 2011. (17 pages, 3.0 MB)
UWFDM-1110 Investigation of Lunar Pickup-Ion Dynamics; Matthew J. Malecki, October 1999. (9 pages, 125 kB)
UWFDM-248 MHD Equilibrium and Stability of NUWMAK; L.P. Mai, G.A. Emmert, and R.W. Conn, May 1978 [Proc. 3rd ANS Top. Mtg., 843 (1978)]. (10 pages, 897 kB)
UWFDM-215 Radiation Transport; G. Magelssen, July 1977. (52 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1423 Shielding and Activation Analyses for Inboard Region of FESS-FNSF Design; B.M. Madani, and L. El-Guebaly, November 2015. (43 pages, 2.6 MB)