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-742 Helium-3 Fueling Concepts for Magnetically Confined Fusion; L.J. Wittenberg, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (6 pages, 707 kB)
UWFDM-741 Ra: A High Efficiency, D-3He, Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactor; J.F. Santarius, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, G.L. Kulcinski, E.M. Larsen, C.W. Maynard, Z. Musicki, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA; Proceedings (IEEE, NY, 1987) 752-755]. (7 pages, 778 kB)
UWFDM-740 Ignition in Near Term D-3He Tokamak Reactors; G.A. Emmert and B.Q. Deng, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (6 pages, 617 kB)
UWFDM-739 LOFA and LOCA in the TIBER-II Engineering Test Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, S. Lomperski, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 844 kB)
UWFDM-738 High Aspect Ratio D-3He Reactors; B.Q. Deng and G.A. Emmert, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 692 kB)
UWFDM-737 An Outboard Shield Design for TIBER-II with Potential for Tritium Self-Sufficiency; M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA; IEEE Cat. No. 87CH2507-2, Vol. 2, pp. 1283]. (7 pages, 797 kB)
UWFDM-736 High Performance Inboard Shield Design for the Compact TIBER-II Test Reactor; L.A. El-Guebaly, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA; published in Proc. IEEE]. (7 pages, 862 kB)
UWFDM-735 Design Studies of the APEX Light Ion Fusion Experiment; G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell, R.R. Peterson, R. Whitley, M. Connelly, B. Glasgow, A. Patel, R. Yamamoto, J. Callen, D. Engman, W. Kelber, E. Maltz, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 762 kB) [more]
UWFDM-734 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Chamber and Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; O. Yasar, M.E. Sawan, D.L. Henderson, G.A. Moses, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 767 kB)
UWFDM-733 Target Chamber Designs for the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 701 kB)
UWFDM-732 Design Considerations for the SIRIUS-M ICF Materials Test Facility; S.I. Abdel-Khalik, H.M. Attaya, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, Z. Musicki, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L. Wittenberg, October 1987 [Presented at the 12th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 12-16 October 1987, Monterey CA]. (7 pages, 793 kB)
UWFDM-731 Effects of 14 MeV Nickel Ion Irradiation on Nickel-Copper Alloys Observed in Cross-Section; L.M. Wang, R.A. Dodd, G.L. Kulcinski, October 1987 [Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 4-8 October 1987, Karlsruhe, FRG.]. (21 pages, 5.5 MB)
UWFDM-730 The Moon: An Abundant Source of Clean and Safe Fusion Fuel for the 21st Century; G.L. Kulcinski and H.H. Schmitt, August 1987 [Presented at the 11th International Scientific Forum on Fueling the 21st Century, 29 Sept.-6 October 1987, Moscow, USSR.]. (38 pages, 6.2 MB)
UWFDM-729 SIRIUS-M: A Symmetric Illumination, Inertially Confined Direct Drive Materials Test Facility; B. Badger, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, H.M. Attaya, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, Z. Musicki, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, October 1987. (97 pages, 3.4 MB)
UWFDM-728 Tether Dynamics and Vibration Analysis; R.L. Engelstad and E.G. Lovell, October 1987 [Presented at the PSN/NASA/ESA Second International Conference on Tethers in Space, 4-8 October 1987, Venice, Italy.]. (7 pages, 668 kB)
UWFDM-727 Heating of Deuterium and He3 Pellets by Protons in a Hot D-He3 Plasma; P.L. Walstrom, August 1987. (15 pages, 686 kB)
UWFDM-726 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Chamber and Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; O. Yasar, M.E. Sawan, D.L. Henderson, G.A. Moses, July 1987. (31 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-725 Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Cavity Analysis: Progress Report for the Period 1 July 1986 to 30 June 1987; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, M. El-Afify, M.L. Corradini, July 1987. (81 pages, 3.5 MB)
UWFDM-724 Target Chamber Design Considerations for the APEX Light Ion Beam Fusion Facility; R.R. Peterson, R.L. Engelstad, G.A. Moses, E.G. Lovell, May 1987. (40 pages, 1.7 MB)
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-722 SOAR: Space Orbiting Advanced Fusion Power Reactor; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, H.M. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J.W. Johnson, T.E. Luzzi, C.W. Maynard, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, September 1987. (57 pages, 4.0 MB) [more]
UWFDM-721 UWEOSPAC: A Subroutine Package for Accessing MIXERG-Generated SESAME-Formatted Multigroup Opacity Tables; R.W. Holzer, March 1987. (30 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-720 Adaptive Mesh Techniques for Unsteady Multi-Gradient Problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics; Timothy James Bartel, January 1987 [Ph.D. thesis]. (141 pages, 4.3 MB)
UWFDM-719 Analysis of Cavity Conditions in Heavy Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.R. Peterson, February 1987. (41 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-718 Fast Ion Pressure in Fusion Plasmas; B.Q. Deng and G.A. Emmert, January 1987. (21 pages, 808 kB)
UWFDM-717 SOAR: Space Orbiting Advanced Fusion Power Reactor; J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski, H. Attaya, M.L. Corradini, L.A. El-Guebaly, G.A. Emmert, J.W. Johnson, C.W. Maynard, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.F. Vogelsang, P.L. Walstrom, L.J. Wittenberg, and T.E. Luzzi, January 1987 [Presented at 4th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque, NM, 12-16 January 1987; Space Nuclear Power Systems 1987 (Orbit, Malabar FL, 1988) 167]. (40 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-716 Reliability Analysis of Phaedrus; Yoichi Watanabe, January 1987. (70 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-715 Twisted Coil Geometry; P.L. Walstrom, December 1986. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-714 DKR-ICF: A Radioactivity and Dose Rate Calculation Code Package (Volume 1); Qingming Wang, Osman Yasar, Douglass L. Henderson, November 1986 (revised December 1994). (53 pages, 2.4 MB)
UWFDM-714a DKR-ICF: A Radioactivity and Dose Rate Calculation Code Package - Volume 2: Sample Problems for the DKR, CONVERT and DOSE Codes; D.L. Henderson, O. Yasar, November 1986 (revised April 1987) [available from the Radiation Information Shielding Center at ORNL, Report CCC-323/DKR]. (180 pages, 7.4 MB)
UWFDM-713 Light Ion Beam Fusion Target Development Facility Studies: Progress Report for the Period October 1, 1985 to October 31, 1986; B. Badger, H. Attaya, T.J. Bartel, D. Bruggink, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, J.J. Watrous, October 1986. (97 pages, 3.1 MB)
UWFDM-712 ION - A Code to Compute Ion Trajectories in Z-Pinch Plasma Channels; G.A. Moses, June 1986. (45 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-711 SIRIUS-M: A Symmetric Illumination, Inertially Confined Direct Drive Materials Test Facility; B. Badger, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, H.M. Attaya, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, J.H. Liang, E.G. Lovell, G.A. Moses, Z. Musicki, R.R. Peterson, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, C. Verdon, R. McCrory, P. McKenty, S. Skupsky, October 1986. (143 pages, 4.7 MB) [more]
UWFDM-710 Generation of Minimal Cut Sets Using LISP; Y. Watanabe, November 1986. (33 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-709 Clean Thermonuclear Power from the Moon; G.L. Kulcinski, J.F. Santarius, L.J. Wittenberg, September 1986 [Presented at the 1st Lunar Development Symposium, Atlantic City NJ, 22-24 September 1986]. (9 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-708 The Economic Analysis of SIRIUS-M; Zoran Musicki, September 1986. (76 pages, 3.0 MB)
UWFDM-707 Radiological Dose Calculations for the Diode Region of the Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility; D.L. Henderson, M.E. Sawan and G.A. Moses, October 1986 [Fus. Tech. 13 (May 1988) 594]. (60 pages, 2.3 MB)
UWFDM-706 Numerical Simulation of an ICF Target Explosion in a Stratified Gas Atmosphere; T.J. Bartel, R.R. Peterson and G.A. Moses, June 1986 [presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986]. Energy, Reno, NV, 15-19 June 1986]. (10 pages, 833 kB)
UWFDM-705 The Chemistry of Molten Li2BeF4; Edwin M. Larsen, Layton J. Wittenberg, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986]. (9 pages, 696 kB)
UWFDM-704 A Thin LiPb/Be Helium Cooled Blanket for MINIMARS: Neutronics Analysis; Laila A. El-Guebaly, June 1986 [Presented at the 7th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Reno, Nevada, 15-19 June 1986; Fusion Tech. 10, No. 3, Part 2B, 1456 (1986)]. (9 pages, 807 kB)