Define the surface density of a disk, outward mass flux, internal torque, and surface magnetic torque by
The sign convention makes positive for outward angular momentum transport in an ordinary Keplerian accretion disk. Vertical integration of mass conservation gives
The specific angular momentum is . Multiply the azimuthal equation by , use the continuity equation to put its left-hand side in conservative form, and integrate over . The assumed decay removes the vertical mass and viscous fluxes, whereas the magnetic surface stress remains:
Subtracting times the integrated mass equation yields
Since , substitution in mass conservation gives the required one-dimensional advection-diffusion equation
Write . A steady inward accretion rate has , so the integrated angular-momentum equation is
For , and therefore
after imposing the zero-torque inner boundary condition at . In a Keplerian accretion disk, and , so
Take for inward accretion, so the outward radial mass flux is . Since and ,
Using and gives
Thus . Far from the hole this approaches the Keplerian accretion disk result , although the pseudo-Newtonian boundary factor retains a different finite-radius shape.