This paper builds and develops an unifying method for the construction of a continuous time fragmentation-branching processes on the space of all fragmentation sizes, induced either by continuous fragmentation kernels or by discontinuous ones. This construction leads to a stochastic model for the fragmentation phase of an avalanche. We introduce also an approximation scheme for the process which solves the corresponding stochastic differential equations of fragmentation. A new achievement of the paper is to compute the distributions of the branching processes approximating the forthcoming branching-fragmentation process. This numerical approach of the associated branching-fragmentation process, is, to our knowledge, one of the first in this direction. We present also numerical results that confirm the validity of the fractal property which was emphasized by our model for an avalanche.
We emphasize a scaling property for the continuous time fragmentation processes related to a stochastic model for the fragmentation phase of an avalanche. We present numerical results that confirm the validity of the scaling property for our model, based on the appropriate stochastic differential equation of fragmentation and on a fractal property of the solution.
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