CONVERGENCE OF THE CRANK-NICOLSON/NEWTON SCHEME FOR NONLINEAR PARABOLIC PROBLEM

In this paper, the Crank-Nicolson/Newton scheme for solving numerically second order nonlinear parabolic problem is proposed. The standard Galerkin finite element method based on P-2 conforming elements is used to the spatial discretization of the problem and the Crank-Nicolson/Newton scheme is applied to the time discretization of the resulted finite element equations. Moreover, assuming the appropriate regularity of the exact solution and the finite element solution, we obtain optimal error estimates of the fully discrete Crank-Nicolson/Newton scheme of nonlinear parabolic problem. Finally, numerical experiments are presented to show the efficient performance of the proposed scheme.