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Recent advances in storage and flooding theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

J. Gani
J. Gani*
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University of Sheffield
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The theory of storage processes, originally formulated by Moran [1] in 1954, has developed in the past fourteen years into a minor subfield of Applied Probability, closely allied to queueing theory. While dam models with discrete inputs are analogous to queueing processes, the essentially continuous nature of water inflows has distinguished generalized storage processes from queues. Indeed, some of the most complex of storage problems have arisen in the case of continuous flows.

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 1969, pp. 90 - 110
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