Analyse a posteriori d'erreur par reconstruction pour un modèle d'écoulement dans un milieu poreux fracturé

We present in this note a posteriori error estimates based on the postprocessing technique for the reduced model of flow in fractured porous media, introduced and analysed by V. Martin, J. Jaffré, and J. Roberts. This model is approximated by the Raviart-Thomas finite elements of lowest order. In this type of approximation, the velocity is well approximated. A postprocessing of the pressure appears to be necessary since it does not belong to H01(Ω). We give an upper bound for the error in the energy norm, with some indicators that are expressed in terms of the reconstruction of the pressure. Numerical results show that all indicators converge to zero when the mesh size goes to zero, with the same speed as the error. One of these indicators can be interpreted as both a discretization indicator and an indicator of the reduced model validity.