List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes
Sir George Stokes was an Anglo-Irish mathematical physicist whose career left a prolific body of work in mathematics and physics. Below is a collection of some of the things named after him.
Physics
- Campbell–Stokes recorder
- Coriolis–Stokes force
- Stokes equation
- Stokes formula
- Stokes' law of sound attenuation
- Stokes line
- Stokes–Einstein (Stokes–Einstein–Sutherland) equation
- *Stokes–Einstein–Debye equation
Fluid dynamics
- Stokes approximation
- Navier–Stokes equations
- Stokes first problem
- Stokes second problem
- Stokes drift
- Stokes expansion, see section about Stokes expansion
- Stokes flow
- Stokes number
- Stokes' paradox
- Stokes radius
- Stokes stream function
- Stokes wave
- Stokes (unit)
- Stokes' law
- Stokeslet
Optics
Mathematics
- Navier–Stokes equations, see [|section on fluid dynamics]
- *Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
- Stokes' theorem
- *Kelvin–Stokes theorem
- *Generalized Stokes theorem
- Stokes operator
- Stokes phenomenon