List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes explained

Sir George Stokes (1819–1903) 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 (translational diffusion)
  • Stokes–Einstein–Debye equation (rotational diffusion)

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

• Stokes operators (quantum)
• Stokes parameters
• Stokes relations
• Stokes shift
• Stokes vector
• Stokes lens

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

Astronomical features

• Stokes (lunar crater)
• Stokes (Martian crater)