List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes

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)