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Using the radial-drift expression already derived, the factor $X-1$ cancels and givesFor $a=1$, $X=R/r$ and $\sigma =1/(15At)$, soThe instantaneous flow is inward for $r<R/5$ and outward for $R/5<r<R$. Nevertheless outward motion need not prevent eventual accretion. The trajectories in accretion trajectories in a compact viscous similarity disk satisfyMultiplication by $t^{-1/2}$ and integration giveA parcel at $r_i\in (0,R_i)$ at time $t_i>0$ has $K=(r_i-R_i)/\sqrt{t_i}<0$. It reaches the origin atBefore arrival, $r/R=1+K{t}^{1/10}/C$ decreases monotonically. Even a parcel initially moving outward eventually crosses $r/R=1/5$, turns inward, and is accreted. Only $K=0$, the outer-edge trajectory, never arrives; its surface density of a disk is zero. Thus almost every mass-carrying parcel is accreted in finite time.

For $a=5/4$, the coefficient $5/2-2a$ vanishes, leavingThe trajectories are $r(t)=r_i\sqrt{t/t_i}$, so each parcel keeps a fixed ratio $r/R$. This is an expanding nonaccreting similarity disk supplied by an inner torque, not an inward accretion solution.