The wall shape effects on the vapor absorption in falling liquid film with a free surface

The vapour absorption into the liquid falling film has occurred in various natural phenomena and its application has spread in various industries, such as the dehumidification and desalination industry. The complexity of flow dynamics, mass transfer, heat, and small dimensions of a liquid film has made its modeling and numerical simulation a key role in the investigation and studying of the effectiveness and improvement of the absorption process in a liquid film absorbent. In the present work, the effects of Reynolds number, wall temperature, and wall shape on the interfacial heat and mass transfer have been investigated. Numerical modeling has been performed using an unsteady Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian interface tracking method by Fortran. The simulation results show that the deformation of the wall surface and the cooling of the wall temperature has a significant effect on the rate of gas vapor absorption into the laminar liquid film in comparison with the flat wall