Stokes may refer to:

People

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

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 *

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, ex ...

* Stokes flow * Stokes' law *

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 * Stokes number *

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 incohere ...

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 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 serie ...

* Campbell–Stokes recorder *

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 G ...

Places

Australia

* Stokes, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia * Stokes Bay (South Australia), a bay in South Australia * Stokes Bay, South Australia, a locality in South Australia *

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, a mountain in Nunavut, Canada * Stokes Range, a mountain range in Nunavut, Canada

New Zealand

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 Stoke ...

, a suburb of Lower Hutt in New Zealand ** Stokes Valley RFC, a rugby football club in Stokes Valley **

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 Po ...

, a state park in Sussex County, New Jersey

United Kingdom

Stokes Bay Stokes Bay ( grid ref.:)) (50.782982, -1.163868) is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach with views of Ryde and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight to the ...

, part of the Solent in Hampshire, England

United States

* Stokes, 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 ...

* Stokes Township, Itasca County, Minnesota *

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 ...

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 *

, 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 The Moo ...

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 * Stoke's, beers made by McCashin's Brewery, Nelson, New Zealand