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) * Governor Stokes (disambiguation) * Senator Stokes (disambiguation)

Science

Stokes (unit) The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness": for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. Viscosity quantifies the inte ...

, 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 For a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow. For instance, a particle floating at the free surface of water waves, experien ...

* Stokes equation (disambiguation) *

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 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 The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes in 1852, as a mathematically convenient alternative to the more common description of incoher ...

Stokes radius The Stokes radius or Stokes–Einstein radius of a solute is the radius of a hard sphere that diffuses at the same rate as that solute. Named after George Gabriel Stokes, it is closely related to solute mobility, factoring in not only size but also ...

* Stokes relations *

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 In fluid dynamics, the Stokes stream function is used to describe the streamlines and flow velocity in a three-dimensional incompressible flow with axisymmetry. A surface with a constant value of the Stokes stream function encloses a streamtube, ...

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 In physics, the Navier–Stokes equations ( ) are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances, named after French engineer and physicist Claude-Louis Navier and Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician Geo ...

Places

* Stokes Bay (disambiguation) * Stokes Township (disambiguation)

Australia

Stokes, Queensland Stokes is a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stokes had a population of 84 people. Geography The Leichhardt River forms the western boundary of the locality. Together with the Alexandra River, the Cloncurr ...

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

Stokes National Park Stokes National Park is a national park in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, 538 km south-east of Perth. The National Park is located west of Esperance on the southern coast. The park was named after Stokes Inlet, whi ...

, 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 *

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 **

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

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 ...

, Sussex County, New Jersey

In space

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 ...

, Moon * Stokes (Martian crater), Mars

Groups, companies, organizations

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, New Zealand * 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

Other uses

* USS ''Stokes'' (AKA-68), a US Navy cargo ship * Stokes mortar, a weapon