Patent ID: 9721680
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G21C,G21D,Y02E

Claim:
1. A method of operating a nuclear reactor comprising: defining a layer increment of a deposit layer modeling a deposit on a heat transfer surface of the nuclear reactor; periodically updating a thickness of the deposit layer by adding the layer increment to the deposit layer; recalculating properties of the deposit layer after each layer increment is added to the deposit layer; determining a temperature related variable of the heat transfer surface as a function of the recalculated properties of the deposit layer; and altering operation of the nuclear reactor when the temperature related variable of the heat transfer surface reaches a predetermined value, wherein each of the layer increments includes a same initial predefined geometry including an initial distribution of channels of different sizes, the recalculating properties of the deposit layer after each layer increment is added to the deposit layer including recalculating geometries of each of the channels to vary the channel sizes in each layer increment.