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Dryness of discrete dams: comments on a paper by Tin and Phatarfod

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

K. Balagopal
K. Balagopal*
Affiliation:
Regional Engineering College, Warangal
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Abstract

The utilisation factor for a discrete dam, defined as the stationary probability of non-emptiness of the dam just before release, is obtained for a class of models that includes the Odoom–Lloyd model, the Anis–Lloyd model, the model of Herbert, etc. The method used points to a different approach to measuring dam utilisation via the actual utilisation, which appears to be more fruitful, and this is discussed in the last section.

Keywords

DISCRETE DAMSEMPTINESS OF DAMDAM UTILISATION FACTORERGODIC THEOREM FOR MARKOV CHAINS
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 858 - 864
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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