On the mathematical model of combined rarefaction and compression waves in condensed matter

Abstract

Two waves model where shock wave is combined with rarefaction wave appearing in laser ablation due to metal-nonmetal transition effect is investigated using conservation laws for mass and momentum fluxes for the steady-state regime of the process. This approach permits to obtain the relation between front velocities of the waves which shows that the rarefaction wave can be rather slow compared with the generated shock wave.