“…Now, we choose a particular scaling (of some coefficients) with respect to the ϵ ‐parameter that leads to a distributed microstructure model in the homogenization limit: For i ∈{ A ; B }, we assume that there are constants , , α i , γ i > 0 such that These specific ϵ ‐scalings are quite common in the modeling of two‐phase media (e.g., ) and are usually justified (albeit only heuristically) by assuming different orders of magnitude of the characteristic time scales of the involved physical processes in the respective domains. In our case, this means that the effect of heat conduction, the dissipation, the stresses, and the thermal expansion are assumed to be smaller/slower in the inclusions when compared with what happens in the matrix.…”