7. Summary of results

The error obtained with respect to the reference solution is of the order of 1% with respect to temperature and hydration. Note that the problem was treated with relatively small time steps for the hydration phenomenon, which lasts several tens of hours. This refinement is necessary because of the explicit integration of hydration.

The results with and without diagnosing the thermal “mass” matrix are identical because the observed phenomenon does not contain a very restrictive transitory phase.