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= Solution

The steady disk should end at the <innermost stable circular orbit>, $r_{\rm in}=3r_S$. Inside it, matter plunges inward on an orbital timescale and cannot maintain the nearly circular shear flow assumed by the viscous-disk equations. If the plunging region communicates negligible stress back across the ISCO, the natural boundary condition is the <zero-torque inner boundary condition>
$$
\boxed{\mathcal G(r_{\rm in})=0}.
$$

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