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-122 Start-Up of UWMAK-II; T.F. Yang, R.W. Conn, and G.A. Emmert, May 1975. (15 pages, 826 kB)
UWFDM-123 A Magnetic Field Code for Handling General Current Carrying Conductors in Three Dimensions; T.F. Yang, May 1975. (10 pages, 789 kB)
UWFDM-124 Construction Techniques and Stress Analysis of Toroidal Field Magnets for Tokamak Fusion Reactors; W.C. Young and I.N. Sviatoslavsky, April 1975 [presented at the International Conference on Magnet Technology, Frascati (Rome), Italy, 21-25 April 1975]. (10 pages, 1.1 MB)
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-126 A Multipoint Interpolation Method Based on Variational Principles for Functionals of the Solution to Linear Equations; E.T. Cheng and R.W. Conn, May 1975. (19 pages, 976 kB)
UWFDM-127 Protection of CTR Metallic First Walls by Neutron Spectral Shifting - Preliminary Draft; G.L. Kulcinski, R.W. Conn, H.I. Avci, and D.K. Sze, June 3, 1975. (48 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-128 Heat Transfer and Neutronics of ISSEC and Partial ISSEC Blanket Designs; D.K. Sze and R.W. Conn, June 1975. (27 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-129 Experimental Thermonuclear Installation - TOKAMAK - 20 - Preliminary Study; V.V. Alikaev, V.A. Glukhikh, U.N. Dnestrovskii, D.P. Ivanov, B.B. Kadomtsev, S.B. Mirnov, N.A. Monoszoh, V.S. Mukhovatov, G.N. Popkov, N.N. Semashko, V.S. Strelkov, G.F. Churakov, V.D. Shafranov, June 1975 [translated by I.N. Sviatoslavsky]. (287 pages, 13 MB) [more]
UWFDM-130 A Possible Scenario to Commercial Tokamak Power Reactors Based on the Results of the UWMAK-I and II Conceptual Design Studies; G.L. Kulcinski and R.W. Conn, June 27, 1975 (revised November 25, 1975). (47 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-131 A Plan for Obtaining Timely Neutron Radiation Damage Information for Experimental Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski, H.H. Barschall, J. Davis, and J.L. Straalsund, June 27, 1975. (60 pages, 2.2 MB) [more]
UWFDM-132 The Need for Neutron Radiation Damage Information from the Viewpoint of the Fusion Reactor Designer; G.L. Kulcinski, June 27, 1975 [prepared for the International Conference on Radiation Test Facilities for the CTR Surface and Materials Program, Argonne National Laboratory, 15-18 July 1975]. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)
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-134 Engineering Considerations of the Toroidal Magnet and Dewar for UWMAK-II, A Wisconsin Tokamak Fusion Reactor Design; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, W.C. Young, and J.W. Lue, June 1975 [to be published in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 21 (1975)]. (21 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-135 The Response of ISSEC Protected First Walls to DT and DD Plasma Neutrons; H.I. Avci and G.L. Kulcinski, October 1975 [published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors, Gatlinburg TN, 1-3 October 1975]. (44 pages, 1.7 MB)
UWFDM-136 Impurity Effects on Plasma Performance in Two Component Tokamaks; R.W. Conn, M. Khelladi, and J. Kesner, October 1975 [submitted to Nuclear Fusion]. (57 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-137 Divertor Criteria for a TCT: Some Reasons Why; A.T. Mense, October 1975. (16 pages, 756 kB)
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-140 The Influence of First Wall Lifetime on the Cost of Electricity in UWMAK Type Fusion Reactors; G.L. Kulcinski and J.R. Young, October 20, 1975 [published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors, Gatlinburg TN, 1-3 October 1975]. (30 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]
UWFDM-141 Graphite Surface Erosion and Blistering; B. Feinberg and R.S. Post, October 1975 [to be published in Journal of Vacuum Science Technology, January-February 1976]. (16 pages, 2.4 MB)
UWFDM-143 Analytic Expressions for Magnetic Forces on Sectored Toroidal Coils; R.W. Moses, Jr. and W.C. Young, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 828 kB)
UWFDM-144 Cryogenically Stable Conductors for Toroidal Fusion Reactor Magnets; M.A. Hilal 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, 775 kB)
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-146 Apparent Difficulties Associated With High Magnetic Field Large Tokamak Power Reactor Designs; R.W. Boom, R.W. Conn, and J.W. Lue, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 776 kB)
UWFDM-147 Reliability of Pool Cooling for Tokamak Fusion Reactor Magnets; R.L. Willig and M.A. Hilal, November 1975 [presented at the Sixth Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, San Diego CA, 18-21 November 1975]. (7 pages, 756 kB)
UWFDM-148 Study of RF and Neutral Beam Heating of Large Tokamaks; J.E. Scharer, R.W. Conn, and D.T. Blackfield, December 1975. (69 pages, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-149 Radiation Damage: The Second Most Serious Obstacle to Commercialization of Fusion Power; G.L. Kulcinski, October 1975 [published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors, Gatlinburg TN, 1-3 October 1975]. (61 pages, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-150 UWMAK-III, A High Performance, Noncircular Tokamak Power Reactor Design; B. Badger, R.W. Conn, G.L. Kulcinski, C.W. Maynard, R. Aronstein, H.I. Avci, D. Blackfield, R.W. Boom, A. Bowles, E. Cameron, E.T. Cheng, R. Clemmer, S. Dalhed, J. Davis, G.A. Emmert, N.M. Ghoniem, S. Ghose, Y. Gohar, J. Kesner, S. Kuo, E. Larsen, E. Ramer, J. Scharer, D. Schluderberg, R.E. Schmunk, T.Y. Sung, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, W.F. Vogelsang, T.F. Yang, and W. Young, December 1975. (807 pages, 55 MB) [more]
UWFDM-151 A Gas-Carried Li2O Cooling-Breeding Fusion Reactor Blanket Concept; D.K. Sze, E.M. Larsen, E.T. Cheng, and R.G. Clemmer, July 1975. (25 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-152 MHD Equilibrium Study of Noncircular Tokamak Reactor Plasmas; T.F. Yang and R.W. Conn, November 1975. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-153 Plasma Modeling and First Wall Interaction Phenomena in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and J. Kesner, February 1976 [published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 63 (1976) 1-14]. (25 pages, 1.6 MB)
UWFDM-154 A Dynamic Rate Theory for the Response of Metals During Steady State and Pulsed Irradiation; Nasr M. Ghoniem, September 1977 [Ph.D. thesis]. (353 pages, 12 MB)
UWFDM-155 Space Dependent Effects on the Lawson Criterion, the Ignition Condition, and Thermal Equilibria in Tokamaks; R.W. Conn and Jay Kesner, December 1975 [to be published in Nuclear Fusion]. (37 pages, 1.5 MB)
UWFDM-156 An Advanced Conceptual Tokamak Fusion Power Reactor Utilizing Closed Cycle Helium Gas Turbines; R.W. Conn and S.C. Kuo, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (73 pages, 2.9 MB)
UWFDM-157 Tritium Handling, Breeding, and Containment in Two Conceptual Fusion Reactor Designs: UWMAK-II and UWMAK-III; R.G. Clemmer, E.M. Larsen, and L.J. Wittenberg, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (36 pages, 1.8 MB) [more]
UWFDM-158 Magnet Design of Toroidal Field Coils for the UWMAK-Tokamak Systems; R.W. Boom, R.W. Moses, Jr., and W.C. Young, March 1976 [to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design]. (52 pages, 2.1 MB)
UWFDM-159 A Novel Method for Studying Damage Rate Effects in Ion Bombarded Nickel; J.B. Whitley, P. Wilkes, and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1976. (25 pages, 6.2 MB)
UWFDM-160 PHD (Version I) Computer Code Documentation; G.A. Moses, June 28, 1976. (135 pages, 7.8 MB)
UWFDM-161 Survey of Irradiation Data on Molybdenum; R.E. Schmunk and G.L. Kulcinski, June 1976. (82 pages, 3.1 MB) [more]
UWFDM-162 Growth Rates and Transport Coefficients for the Trapped Ion/Collisionless Trapped Particle Instability; W.A. Houlberg, June 1976. (37 pages, 1.4 MB)
UWFDM-163 Drift Surfaces in Linear and Axisymmetric Magnetic Fields; J.E. Howard, June 1976. (25 pages, 971 kB)