I meant the wear rate which I think it is due to corrosion. FLUENT can be used to predict the shear stress of the flow. But how could I used this data to calculate the wear rate? Can you suggest me any formula?
Thats is true if you are producing a lot of power but what if you don't choose to produce 1000 MW of power?
Also I don't know why Nuscale puts the reactor inside water. (Bouncy effect and a lot of stress on the pressure vessel). Do they count the fact that water hammer might happened inside the...
For example, all the new small reactors such as IRIS, are in a pressure vessel, that water comes from the side (down comer) and pushed up through the reactor, then turn into steam. Nuscale is also designing a same thing almost. This concept of natural circulation can be copied by anyone since it...
Out of curiosity why do reactor companies patent next generation reactors, while there is more than 20 years to build next generation reactors, the time which patents are expired? Are they wasting money?