Stokes – using a perturbation series approach, now known as the Stokes expansion – obtained approximate solutions for nonlinear wave motion. Stokes's...

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Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS (/stoʊks/; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes...

of Stokes drift associated with the wave motion. Also the phase speed is independent of the trochoidal wave's amplitude, unlike other nonlinear wave-theories...

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is named after George Gabriel Stokes, who derived expressions for this drift in his 1847 study of water waves. The Stokes drift is the difference in end...

Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes in...

defined. Stokes already identified two possible definitions of phase velocity for periodic nonlinear waves: Stokes first definition of wave celerity (S1)...

Stokes. They were developed over several decades of progressively building the theories, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes). The Navier–Stokes equations...

Ursell number is derived from the Stokes wave expansion, a perturbation series for nonlinear periodic waves, in the long-wave limit of shallow water – when...

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and amplitudes in the tens of meters. Rossby Waves Rossby waves, or planetary waves are huge, slow waves generated in the troposphere by temperature differences...

Netflix teen drama series Outer Banks. Stokes was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the only child of Jeff Stokes and Jennifer Canning. His parents divorced...

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation Shallow water equations Stokes' wave theory Trochoidal wave Wave turbulence Whitham equation Pond, S.; Pickard, G.L. (1978)...

The wave base, in physical oceanography, is the maximum depth at which a water wave's passage causes significant water motion. At water depths deeper...

ramp above the fair weather wave base, the middle ramp, above the storm wave base, the outer ramp, below the storm wave base. In distally steepened ramps...

The Stokes number (Stk), named after George Gabriel Stokes, is a dimensionless number characterising the behavior of particles suspended in a fluid flow...

century the Navier–Stokes equations for the description of viscous flow were developed by Saint-Venant, Navier and Stokes. Stokes derived the drag around...

reference according to Stokes' first definition of wave celerity, the mass flux M w {\displaystyle M_{w}} of the wave is related to the wave's kinetic energy...

the Coriolis–Stokes force is a forcing of the mean flow in a rotating fluid due to interaction of the Coriolis effect and wave-induced Stokes drift. This...

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Adams–Stokes syndrome, Stokes–Adams syndrome or Gerbec–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome is a periodic fainting spell in which there is intermittent complete...

Anglo-Irish physicist G. G. Stokes, who also developed Stokes's law for the friction force in fluid motion. A generalisation of Stokes attenuation taking into...

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drift Stokes expansion, see section about Stokes expansion Stokes flow Stokes number Stokes' paradox Stokes radius Stokes stream function Stokes wave Stokes...

For nonlinear waves, the particle paths are not closed, as found by George Gabriel Stokes in 1847, see the original paper by Stokes. Or in Phillips...

low-amplitude waves. Stokes' wave theory — a perturbation-series approach to the description of weakly nonlinear and dispersive waves, especially successful...

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy, also called Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy (CARS), is a form of spectroscopy used primarily...

This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves). Eponym List of eponymous laws Waves Scientific phenomena named after people Truesdell, C...

The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem concerns the mathematical properties of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations, a system of partial...