Steady viscous disk supplied by a radial source

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For a Keplerian disk with evolution and , take zero viscous torque at and zero flux outside the source region at . The steady state gives , and its outer condition gives the displayed flux. Integrating once more from the zero-torque inner boundary condition yields
The equation determines the viscosity-density product, so a thermodynamic viscosity closure can be imposed afterward. For nonnegative integrable , it is nonnegative and the inner accretion rate is exactly the total supplied mass per unit time.

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