On the Rate of Convergence of Projection-Difference Methods for Smoothly Solvable Parabolic Equations

A linear parabolic problem in a separable Hilbert space is solved approximately by the projection-difference method. The problem is discretized in space by the Galerkin method orientated towards finite-dimensional subspaces of finite-element type and in time by using the implicit Euler method and the modified Crank-Nicolson scheme. We establish uniform (with respect to the time grid) and mean-square (in space) error estimates for the approximate solutions. These estimates characterize the rate of convergence of errors to zero with respect to both the time and space variables.