In thermally driven winds emanating from regions in the solar corona with base electron densities of n0≥108 cm-3, a substantial fraction of the heat conductive flux from the base is transferred into flow energy by the pressure gradient force. The adiabatic cooling of the electrons causes the electron temperature profile to fall off more rapidly than in heat conduction dominated flows. Alfv¿n waves of solar origin, accelerating the basically thermally driven solar wind, lead to an increased mass flux and enhanced adiabatic cooling. The reduction in electron temperature may be significant also in the subsonic region of the flow and lead to a moderate increase of solar wind mass flux with increasing Alfv¿n wave amplitude. In the solar wind model presented here the Alfv¿n wave energy flux per unit mass is larger than in models where the temperature in the subsonic flow is not reduced by the wave, and consequently the asymptotic flow speed is higher. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992