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-300 Compact Electron Beam or Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactor Cavity Design Using Non-Spherical Blast Waves; G.A. Moses and R. Spencer, April 1979 [Nucl. Fusion Lett. 19, 1386 (1979)]. (10 pages, 691 kB)
UWFDM-755 Commercial Attractiveness of D-He3 Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, February 1988. (54 pages, 4.6 MB)
UWFDM-415 Comments on the Hydrogen Solubility Data for Liquid Lead, Lithium and Lithium-Lead Alloys and Review of a Tritium Solubility Model for Lithium-Lead Alloys; E.M. Larsen, M. Ortman, and K. Plute, May 1981. (18 pages, 868 kB)
UWFDM-499 Comment on ``Variational Calculation of the Trapping Rate in Thermal Barriers'' (UWFDM-490); R. Carrera and J.D. Callen, April 1983. (7 pages, 523 kB)
UWFDM-362 Collisionless Plasma Flow Through a Decreasing Magnetic Field; A.W. Bailey and G.A. Emmert, July 1980. (17 pages, 719 kB)
UWFDM-1038 Collisional-Radiative, Atomic Physics, and Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations of Aluminum and Silicon Targets Heated by the KALIF Proton Beam; J.J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, H.-K. Chung, J.F. Santarius, December 1996. (37 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-937 Collisional-Radiative Equilibrium (CRE) Model for the CONRAD Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code; J.J. MacFarlane, December 1993. (47 pages, 759 kB)
UWFDM-571 Collisional Effects on Coherent Nonlinear Wave Particle Interactions for Second Harmonic Electron Cyclotron Heating; M.D. Carter, J.D. Callen, D.B. Batchelor and R.C. Goldfinger, March 1984. (22 pages, 1.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-528 Collisional Boundary Layer Effect on the Thermal Barrier Ion Trapping Rate in a Tandem Mirror; R. Carrera and J.D. Callen, June 1983 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (37 pages, 1.3 MB)
UWFDM-497 Code Package for Ion Transport in Materials: BRICE, E-DEP, HERAD, MARLOWE, TRIM; H. Attaya, December 1982. (12 pages, 647 kB)
UWFDM-1140 Clearance Issues for Advanced Fusion Power Plants; L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, A. Abdou, P. Wilson, and the ARIES Team, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT; published in Fusion Technology, 39 (2001) 986-990]. (7 pages, 182 kB)
UWFDM-1294 Clearance Considerations for Slightly-Irradiated Components of Fusion Power Plants; L. El-Guebaly, R. Pampin, M. Zucchetti, July 2006 [presented at the 8th IAEA Technical Meeting on Fusion Power Plant Safety, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 July 2006; published in Nuclear Fusion 47 (2007) 480-484]. (10 pages, 707 kB) [more]
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-188 Classical Energy Deposition and Refraction in Spherical and Planar Laser Fusion Targets; James E. Howard, November 1976. (48 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-456 Choice of First Wall Material in the Light Ion Beam Target Development Facility; R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, and K.J. Lee, February 1982. (51 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-551 Charts for Specifying Limits on Copper Stabilizer Damage Rate; M.E. Sawan, September 1983 [presented at the Third Topical Meeting on Fusion Reactor Materials, Albuquerque, NM, 19-23 September 1983; J. Nucl. Matl. 122&123 (1984) 1376]. (8 pages, 686 kB)
UWFDM-110 Charging Losses of the Divertors and Transformer Coils; M.A. Hilal, September 1974. (14 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-1123 Chamber Dynamic Research with Pulsed Power; R.R. Peterson, C.L. Olson, T.J. Renk, G.E. Rochau, M.A. Sweeney, February 2001 [accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (2001)]. (13 pages, 135 kB) [more]
UWFDM-778 Chamber Design for the LIBRA Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactor; M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, L.J. Wittenberg, E.G. Lovell, R.L. Engelstad, October 1988 [presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 9-13 October 1988, Salt Lake City UT; Fus. Tech. 15/2 (1989) 766]. (8 pages, 918 kB)
UWFDM-1383 Challenges of Fusion Power Plant Licensing: Differences and Commonalities with Existing Systems; L. El-Guebaly, L. Cadwallader, W. Sowder, November 2010 [presented at 19th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, November 7-11, 2010, Las Vegas NV. Published in Fusion Science and Technology 60, Number 2 (July 2011) 751-759.]. [more]
UWFDM-1244 Ceramic Breeder Blanket for ARIES-CS; A.R. Raffray, S. Malang, L. El-Guebaly, X. Wang and the ARIES Team, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1068-1073]. (9 pages, 2.9 MB) [more]
UWFDM-138 Cavity Kinetics in Heavily Cold-Worked Ni in a Neutron Pulse; N. Ghoniem and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1975. (39 pages, 1.6 MB) [more]
UWFDM-371 Cavity Gas Analysis for Light Ion Beam Fusion Reactors; R.R. Peterson, G.W. Cooper, and G.A. Moses, August 1980 [Nucl. Technology/Fusion 1, 377 (1981)]. (37 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-101 Cavity Formation in Aluminum Irradiated with Aluminum Ions; Mark Lauren Sundquist, December 1974 [Ph.D. thesis]. (72 pages, 2.9 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-905 Calculational Models for the Treatment of Pulsed/Intermittent Activation within Fusion Energy Devices; S.E. Spangler, J.E. Sisolak, D.L. Henderson, August 1992 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 22 (July 1993) 349]. (33 pages, 738 kB)
UWFDM-66 Calculational Methods for Nuclear Heating; M.A. Abdou, July 1973. (224 pages, 8.4 MB)
UWFDM-472 Calculation of Parallel Viscosity in the Plateau Regime; K.C. Shaing and J.D. Callen, May 1982 (revised January 1983) [Phys. Fluids 26 1526 (1983)]. (11 pages, 616 kB)
UWFDM-47 Calculation of Magnetic Field from a Current Carrying Finite Size Conductor; T.F. Yang, June 1973. (23 pages, 888 kB)
UWFDM-491 Calculated and Measured Emittance of a Sputter-Type Negative-Ion Source; James H. Billen, November 1982 [Invited paper presented at the Seventh Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, November 8-10, 1982]. (8 pages, 840 kB)
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-670 CONRAD - A Combined Hydrodynamics-Condensation/Vaporization Computer Code; R.R. Peterson, J.J. MacFarlane, G.A. Moses, January 1986 (revised July 1988). (139 pages, 5.0 MB)
UWFDM-1353 CAD Based Monte Carlo Method: Algorithms for Geometric Evaluation in Support of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Calculation; Mengkuo Wang, August 2006 [Ph.D. thesis]. (151 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-1192 Business Context of Space Tourism; Harrison H. Schmitt, December 2002 [accepted by the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2003), 2-5 February 2003, Albuquerque NM]. (6 pages, 594 kB)
UWFDM-1191 Business Approach To Lunar Base Activation; Harrison H. Schmitt, December 2002 [accepted by the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2003), 2-5 February 2003, Albuquerque NM]. (8 pages, 750 kB)
UWFDM-264 Burn-Up Calculations for the Laser Driven Fusion-Fission Fuel Factory SOLASE-H; M.Z. Youssef, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Moses, October 1978. (46 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-526 Buildup Factors for Magnet Shielding in Tandem Mirror Fusion Reactors; M.E. Sawan, C.W. Maynard, and L.A. El-Guebaly, May 1983 [presented at the Sixth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, 16-20 May 1983, Tokyo, Japan]. (13 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-476 Bubble Screen Shielding of Water Pressure Waves Emitted by a Harmonically Pulsating Vessel; K.J. O'Brien and G.A. Moses, July 1982. (54 pages, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-2 Breeding Ratio, Inventory, and Doubling Time in a D-T Fusion Reactor; W.F. Vogelsang, December 1971. (17 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-985 Breeding Potential of Candidate Breeders for the U.S. Demo Power Plant; L.A. El-Guebaly, September 1995 [Presented at the 16th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 1-5 October 1995, Champaign IL]. (7 pages, 661 kB)