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

  • Xinlong FENG ,
  • Yinnian HE
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  • 1. College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China;
    2. Center for Computational Geosciences;School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

Received date: 2014-10-21

  Revised date: 2015-03-11

  Online published: 2016-01-30

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This work is in part supported by the Distinguished Young Scholars Fund of Xinjiang Province(2013711010), NCET-13-0988 and the NSF of China(11271313, 11271298, 61163027, and 11362021).

Abstract

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 P2 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.

Cite this article

Xinlong FENG , Yinnian HE . CONVERGENCE OF THE CRANK-NICOLSON/NEWTON SCHEME FOR NONLINEAR PARABOLIC PROBLEM[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2016 , 36(1) : 124 -138 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(15)30083-7

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