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A dam with inverse Gaussian input

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. M. Hasofer
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania

Extract

Gani and Prabhu (1) have presented a general theory of storage for dams subject to a steady release. At time t ≥ 0, let a dam of infinite capacity have a continuous random content Z(t) ≥ 0; the input X(t) ≥ 0 which has entered it during time t follows an infinitely divisible distribution, while the dam is subject to a steady release at constant unit rate except if it is empty, when the release ceases. A procedure is obtained whereby various functions describing the transient behaviour of Z(t) can be calculated in principle.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1964

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