In this paper, a compact finite difference scheme is constructed and investigated for the fourth-order time-fractional integro-differential equation with a weakly singular kernel. In the temporal direction, the Caputo derivative term is treated by means of L 1 discrete formula and the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral term is discretized by the second-order convolution quadrature rule. A fully discrete compact difference scheme is constructed with the space discretization by the fourth-order compact approximation. The stability and convergence are obtained by the discrete energy method, the Cholesky decomposition and the reduced-order method. Numerical experiments are presented to verify the theoretical analysis.
KEYWORDSCholesky decomposition, compact difference scheme, fourth-order time-fractional integro-differential equation, second-order convolution quadrature rule, stability and convergence 1 Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq. 2020;36:439-458. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/num