TWO-GRID ALGORITHM OF H^(1)-GALERKIN MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR SEMILINEAR PARABOLIC INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

In this paper,we present a two-grid discretization scheme for semilinear parabolic integro-differential equations by H1-Galerkin mixed finite element methods.We use the lowest order Raviart-Thomas mixed finite elements and continuous linear finite element for spatial discretization,and backward Euler scheme for temporal discretization.Firstly,a priori error estimates and some superclose properties are derived.Secondly,a two-grid scheme is presented and its convergence is discussed.In the proposed two-grid scheme,the solution of the nonlinear system on a fine grid is reduced to the solution of the nonlinear system on a much coarser grid and the solution of two symmetric and positive definite linear algebraic equations on the fine grid and the resulting solution still maintains optimal accuracy.Finally,a numerical experiment is implemented to verify theoretical results of the proposed scheme.The theoretical and numerical results show that the two-grid method achieves the same convergence property as the one-grid method with the choice h=H^(2).