Abstract. In this paper the mathematical model describing the falling thin liquid film on a vertical wall is considered taking into account heat and mass transfer at the interface in the regime of periodic rolling waves. The families of exact and numerical generalized solutions, where periodic traveling waves conjugate through the strong and weak discontinuities with each other or with the residual thickness, are constructed. Evolution of exact periodic generalized solutions is studied in time.
Problem statementHeat transfer at condensation of immobile saturated vapor on a vertical surface was firstly considered in [1] for the case of the laminar flow of a condensate film. Later, theoretical and experimental studies of the film flows, including those with consideration of heat and mass transfer on the free surface, were carried out in many papers. It is shown [2] that the Kapitza waves are not the capillary, but the rolling ones. A possibility of traveling wave existence on the surface of a vertically falling liquid film without consideration of surface tension is shown in [3], and the equation, describing propagation of these waves, so-called kinematic equation, is also derived there (exact discontinuous solutions to this equation correspond qualitatively to the experimental results). In [4], the flow of a thin liquid film on a vertical wall was studied theoretically with consideration of condensation at the interface in the regime of the rolling waves. The families of discontinuous solutions were derived, where the traveling waves conjugate with each other or with a residual thickness through strong and weak discontinuities. In [5] the model that takes into account heat and mass transfer at the interface of a thin film of liquid flowing down a vertical wall in the regime of rolling waves for both cases -evaporation and condensation was studied. The full families of exact generalized solutions, which model the increasing and decreasing waves as well as the rolling waves, where the traveling waves are interfaced through strong or weak discontinuities with each other or with the "residual" thickness were constructed. Time evolution of these families of exact generalized solutions was studied. The maps of flow regimes of the liquid film on a vertical heat transfer surface were plotted. Based on the model developed in [3][4][5], the traveling waves on the surface of a falling liquid film were studied in [6], taking into account heat and mass transfer and surface tension.