A full-discrete two-grid discontinuous Galerkin approximation for nonlinear parabolic problems is proposed. The L2-norm error analysis of the two-grid method is carried out. The analysis shows that our algorithm will achieve an asymptotically optimal approximation as long as mesh sizes satisfy h= O(H2) , where H and h are the size of the coarse mesh and the fine mesh, respectively. Numerical examples are presented to test the efficiency of our algorithm. © 2023, The Author(s) under exclusive licence to S...