Stokes may refer to:

People

Stokes (surname) Stokes is a surname, and may refer to: A * Adrian Stokes (disambiguation) **Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), English landscape painter * Alan and Alex Stokes (born 1996), American internet celebrities * Alan Stokes (born 1981), British profes ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name)

Science

* Stokes (unit), a measure of viscosity *

Stokes boundary layer In fluid dynamics, Stokes problem also known as Stokes second problem or sometimes referred to as Stokes boundary layer or Oscillating boundary layer is a problem of determining the flow created by an oscillating solid surface, named after Sir Geor ...

* Stokes drift *

Stokes flow Stokes flow (named after George Gabriel Stokes), also named creeping flow or creeping motion,Kim, S. & Karrila, S. J. (2005) ''Microhydrodynamics: Principles and Selected Applications'', Dover. . is a type of fluid flow where advective iner ...

Stokes' law In 1851, George Gabriel Stokes derived an expression, now known as Stokes' law, for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. Stokes' law is derived by s ...

Stokes' law of sound attenuation Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's viscosity. It states that the amplitude of a plane wave decreases exponentially with distance traveled, at a ...

Stokes line __NOTOC__ Stokes shift is the difference (in energy, wavenumber or frequency units) between positions of the band maxima of the absorption and emission spectra (fluorescence and Raman being two examples) of the same electronic transition. It ...

Stokes number The Stokes number (Stk), named after George Gabriel Stokes, is a dimensionless number characterising the behavior of particles suspended in a fluid flow. The Stokes number is defined as the ratio of the characteristic time of a particle (or dro ...

* Stokes parameters * Stokes radius *

Stokes relations In physical optics, the Stokes relations, named after Sir George Gabriel Stokes,Hecht, Eugene, Optics, Fourth Edition, describe the relative phase of light reflected at a boundary between materials of different refractive indices. They also relate ...

Stokes shift __NOTOC__ Stokes shift is the difference (in energy, wavenumber or frequency units) between positions of the band maxima of the absorption and emission spectra (fluorescence and Raman being two examples) of the same electronic transition. It ...

* Stokes stream function *

Stokes' theorem Stokes's theorem, also known as the Kelvin–Stokes theorem Nagayoshi Iwahori, et al.:"Bi-Bun-Seki-Bun-Gaku" Sho-Ka-Bou(jp) 1983/12Written in Japanese)Atsuo Fujimoto;"Vector-Kai-Seki Gendai su-gaku rekucha zu. C(1)" :ja:培風館, Bai-Fu-Kan( ...

Stokes wave In fluid dynamics, a Stokes wave is a nonlinear and periodic surface wave on an inviscid fluid layer of constant mean depth. This type of modelling has its origins in the mid 19th century when Sir George Stokes – using a perturbation ser ...

Campbell–Stokes recorder The Campbell–Stokes recorder (sometimes called a Stokes sphere) is a type of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and modified in 1879 by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The original design by Campbell consisted of ...

* Navier–Stokes equations

Places

Australia

* Stokes, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia *

Stokes Bay (South Australia) Stokes Bay is a bay in South Australia on the northern coast of Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, aft ...

, a bay in South Australia *

Stokes Bay, South Australia __NOTOC__ Stokes Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island overlooking Investigator Strait about south-west of the state capital of Adelaide. Its boundaries were created in Marc ...

, a locality in South Australia * Stokes National Park, in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia

Canada

Stokes Mountain Stokes Mountain is the highest mountain of the Stokes Range and of Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada. It also has a topographic prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop i ...

, a mountain in Nunavut, Canada *

Stokes Range The Stokes Range is a mountain range on Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the northernmost ranges in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera. Its highest point is at Stokes Mountain.Stokes Valley Stokes Valley, a major suburb of the city of Lower Hutt in the North Island of New Zealand, lies at the edge of the city, seven kilometres northeast of the city centre. It occupies the valley of a small tributary of the Hutt River, called Sto ...

, a suburb of Lower Hutt in New Zealand **

Stokes Valley RFC Stokes Valley Rugby Football Club (SVRFC) is a rugby union club based in Stokes Valley, a suburb of the Hutt Valley, New Zealand. The club was formed in early 1949, during the post-war era of increased settlement in the Hutt Valley. The club sta ...

, a rugby football club in Stokes Valley **

Stokes State Forest Stokes State Forest is a state park located in Sandyston Township, New Jersey, Sandyston, Montague Township, New Jersey, Montague and Frankford Township, New Jersey, Frankford in Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. ...

, a state park in Sussex County, New Jersey

United Kingdom

* Stokes Bay, part of the Solent in Hampshire, England

United States

Stokes, North Carolina Stokes is a census-designated place in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The CDP is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. It is located 10 miles northeast of Greenville along North Carolina ...

Stokes County, North Carolina Stokes County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,520. Its county seat is Danbury. Stokes County is included in the Winston-Salem, N.C., Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ...

Stokes Township, Itasca County, Minnesota Stokes Township is a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 230 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 57.3 square miles (148.5 km), o ...

Stokes Township, Logan County, Ohio Stokes Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,613, down from 5,367 at the 2000 census. Geography Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders t ...

Stokes Township, Madison County, Ohio Stokes Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 746 people in the township, 341 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Geography Located in the southwestern c ...

Stokes Township, Roseau County, Minnesota Stokes Township is a township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 229 at the 2000 census. Stokes Township bears the name of George Stokes, an early settler. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the ...

, Sussex County, New Jersey

In space

Stokes (Martian crater) Stokes is an impact crater on Mars, located on the Martian Northern plains at 55.9°N latitude and 188.8°W longitude. It measures approximately in diameter and was named after Irish-born physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903). The crater ...

Stokes (lunar crater) Stokes is a lunar impact crater that is nestled in the curve formed by the craters Regnault to the north, Volta along the northeast, and Langley. This formation of craters lies nearly along the northwestern limb of the Moon, where their visib ...

Other uses

* USS ''Stokes'' (AKA-68), a US Navy cargo ship * Stokes mortar, a weapon * Frederick A. Stokes Company, a publisher owned by

Frederick A. Stokes Frederick Abbott Stokes (November 4, 1857 – November 15, 1939) was an American publisher, founder and long-time head of the eponymous Frederick A. Stokes Company. Biography Stokes graduated from Yale Law School in 1879. He worked at Dodd, Mea ...

* Stoke's, beers made by

McCashin's Brewery McCashin's Brewery, also known as Mac's Brewery in the past, is a small brewery based in Nelson, New Zealand. It was founded in 1980/81 by one of the pioneers of craft brewing, Terry McCashin, who produced the well-known Mac's beer. Today it ...

, Nelson, New Zealand