  We study the possibility of cavitation in the nonconformal N=2^* SU(N) theory
which is a mass deformation of N=4 SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. The second order
transport coefficients are known from the numerical work using AdS/CFT by
Buchel and collaborators. Using these and the approach of Rajagopal and
Tripuraneni, we investigate the flow equations in a 1+1 dimensional boost
invariant set up. We find that the string theory model does not exhibit
cavitation before phase transition is reached. We give a semi-analytic
explanation of this finding.
