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 professio ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Governor Stokes (disambiguation) * Senator Stokes (disambiguation)

Science

Stokes (unit) Viscosity is a measure of a fluid's rate-dependent resistance to a change in shape or to movement of its neighboring portions relative to one another. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of ''thickness''; for example, syrup h ...

, 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 Geo ...

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, experienc ...

* 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 advection, advec ...

Stokes' law In fluid dynamics, Stokes' law gives the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects moving at very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. It was derived by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 by solving the S ...

Stokes' law of sound attenuation In acoustics, 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 distanc ...

* Stokes line *

Stokes number The Stokes number (Stk), named after Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, George Gabriel Stokes, is a dimensionless number characterising the behavior of particles Suspension (chemistry), suspended in a fluid flow. The Stokes number is defined as the ...

Stokes parameters The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the Polarization (waves), polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851, as a mathematically convenient alternative to the more common de ...

* 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 *

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

Stokes' theorem Stokes' theorem, also known as the Kelvin–Stokes theorem after Lord Kelvin and George Stokes, the fundamental theorem for curls, or simply the curl theorem, is a theorem in vector calculus on \R^3. Given a vector field, the theorem relates th ...

* Stokes wave *

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 ...

Navier–Stokes equations The Navier–Stokes equations ( ) are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances. They were named after French engineer and physicist Claude-Louis Navier and the Irish physicist and mathematician Georg ...

Places

Stokes Bay (disambiguation) Stokes Bay (or Stokes' Bay) may refer to: *Stokes Bay (South Australia), a bay on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, Australia *Stokes Bay, South Australia, a locality on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, Australia * Stokes Bay (Ontario), a bay ...

Stokes Township (disambiguation) Stokes Township may refer to: * Stokes Township, Itasca County, Minnesota * Stokes Township, Roseau County, Minnesota * Stokes Township, Logan County, Ohio * Stokes Township, Madison County, Ohio See also *Stokes (disambiguation) Stokes may refer ...

Australia

Stokes, Queensland Stokes is an outback Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stokes had a population of 75 people. Geography The Leichhardt River forms the western boundary of the locality. T ...

, a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland *

Stokes County, Queensland Lands administrative divisions of Queensland refers to the divisions of Queensland used for the registration of land titles. There are 322 counties, and 5,319 parishes within the state. They are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Austr ...

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, wh ...

, 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 or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop ...

, 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, Montague and Frankford in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. Stokes comprises of mountainous woods in the Kittatinny Mountains, extending from the southern boundary of High ...

, 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. As of the 2020 census its population is 357. It is located 10 miles ...

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, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which ...

, Sussex County, New Jersey

In space

Stokes (lunar crater) Stokes is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is nestled in the curve formed by the craters Regnault (crater), Regnault to the north, Volta (crater), Volta along the northeast, and Langley (crater), Langley. This formation of craters lies ...

, Moon * Stokes (Martian crater), Mars

Groups, companies, organizations

* Stokes Valley RFC, a rugby football club in Stokes Valley, New Zealand * Frederick A. Stokes Company, a publisher owned by Frederick A. Stokes * Stoke's, beers made by

McCashin's Brewery McCashin's Brewery, also previously known as Mac's Brewery, 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 The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar designed by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, during the latter half of the First World War. The 3-inch trench m ...

, a weapon