`ISRN Mathematical PhysicsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 185469, 11 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/185469`
Research Article

## Exact Periodic Solutions of the Nonintegrable Kawahara Equation

Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Technical University of Sofia, P.O. Box 384, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Received 26 April 2012; Accepted 19 July 2012

Academic Editors: M. Ehrnström, K. S. Fa, D. Gepner, and W.-H. Steeb

Copyright © 2012 Ognyan Yordanov Kamenov and Anna P. Angova. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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