Here are plots of the integrated neutron scalar flux as a function of radius. Understand that this is the flux coming from spherical shells, not a cylindrical projection through a spherical capsule, as might be seen by an exterior camera.
These are very dirty: The abscissae for the radial profiles change from time step to time step. What I have done is picked some fixed radial bins, and used a spline to interpolate the radial profiles of the neutron flux at each time step to the fixed radial positions. The "integration" is not a true numerical integral, but rather a sum of the values in the bins for each time step. If anyone would like a modestly more accurate answer I can integrate numerically, but this seemed good enough for now.
For four sample implosion velocities, here are the integrated neutron fluxes, integrated for the entire length of the simulation (CLICK THE PLOT TO ENLARGE):
Here is a slightly zoomed in version of this same plot:
I also thought it might be interesting to see if the shape of this curve changes significantly as the state of the capsule changes (imploding versus exploding etc). Here are the integrated neutron fluxes from the beginning of the simulation up until the time specified:
Not sure that I gained any particular insight from this... I'm sort of surprised by it, since hot spot radius changes by so much. That's all for now.



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