Patent Document ID: 20120283886
Application ID: 13508719
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for maximising thermal efficiency of a power plant, the method comprising: obtaining the current state of the plant from available measured data; obtaining a set of Variables representing a current state of the power plant; applying a set of constraints to the Variables; generating a revised set of Variables representing a revised state of the power plant, the generation based at least partly on: Euler's equation ρ ∂ v → ∂ t = ∂ ( ρ v → ) ∂ t + ρ ( v → · ∇ ) v → = - ∇ P - ∑ F → k · j →. ; and the conservation of mass equation ∂ ( A ρ k ) ∂ t + ∇ · [ A ( j → k + ρ k v → ) ] = ∂ ∂ t [ A × M k ∑ j = 1 r v kj ( ρ n ~ j ) ] ; and a mathematical description of a reversible continuum; and testing the revised set of Variables within a mathematical model for convergence.