A steady outward radial flow with negligible pressure force conserves . If its speed at a reference radius equals the mechanical escape velocity, this constant is zero and . Conservation of mass gives . An adiabatically evolving ideal gas carried along that leading flow has and .
Finite specific enthalpy changes the dynamical problem: the full conserved Bernoulli equation is . At the same boundary mechanical escape speed, rather than zero. A warm wind therefore needs its enthalpy and equation of state specified before the explicit ballistic velocity can be replaced by a consistent pressure-driven solution.

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