Patent ID: 8630830

Claim:
A thermal fluid modeling system, comprising: a thermal fluid system modeler including a plurality of individual components; a solution vector configured from the plurality of individual components and being ordered as a function of one or more inlet dependencies of the plurality of individual components; a fluid flow simulator, embodied as one of a processor and program code residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, adapted to simulate thermal energy being communicated with the flowing fluid and between first and second components of the plurality of individual components, wherein the simulation extends from an initial time to a later time step and bounds heat transfer to be only between the flowing fluid, walls of tubes formed in each of the individual components of the plurality, and between adjacent tubes; and a component updater, embodied as one of the processor and the program code residing on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, configured to update component parameters of the solution vector with simulation results for each of the plurality of individual components of the simulation; wherein the component updater produces an updated solution vector with the simulation results, wherein the thermal modeling system further produces a thermal fluid model based on the updated solution vector, and wherein the thermal fluid modeler simultaneously performs all of a thermal fluid analysis, a pressure drop analysis, and a trace contaminant analysis based on the updated solution vector.