In this paper, we develop a fast compact difference scheme for the
fourth-order multi-term fractional sub-diffusion equation with Neumann
boundary conditions. Combining L1 formula on graded meshes and the efficient
sum-of-exponentials approximation to the kernels, the proposed scheme
recovers the losing temporal convergence accuracy and spares the
computational costs. Meanwhile, difficulty caused by the Neumann boundary
conditions and fourth-order derivative is also carefully handled. The unique
solvability, unconditional stability and convergence of the proposed scheme
are analyzed by the energy method. At last, the theoretical results are
verified by numerical experiments.
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