Runoff on rooted trees

DOI10.1017/JPR.2019.61MaRDI QIDQ5205943zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Owen D. Jones

Publication date 17 December 2019

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08803, http://orca.cf.ac.uk/124258/1/j17166.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitioncoalescencevoter modelparking functionrunoffoverland flowrecursive distributional equationdistributional fixed point equationBienaymé-Galton-Watson process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Abstract: We introduce an idealised model for overland flow generated by rain falling on a hill-slope. Our prime motivation is to show how the coalescence of runoff streams promotes the total generation of runoff. We show that, for our model, as the rate of rainfall increases in relation to the soil infiltration rate, there is a distinct phase-change. For low rainfall (the subcritical case) only the bottom of the hill-slope contributes to the total overland runoff, while for high rainfall (the supercritical case) the whole slope contributes and the total runoff increases dramatically. We identify the critical point at which the phase-change occurs, and show how it depends on the degree of coalescence. When there is no stream coalescence the critical point occurs when the rainfall rate equals the average infiltration rate, but when we allow coalescence the critical point occurs when the rainfall rate is less than the average infiltration rate, and increasing the amount of coalescence increases the total expected runoff.

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