Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucas
Stokes, 1860s
Fluorspar
Crookes Radiometer
Lord Kelvin
Reynolds number
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In fluid dynamics, the Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity that helps predict fluid flow patterns in different situations by measuring the ratio between inertial and viscous forces. At low Rey
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
…became known as Stokes' law. He derived an expression for the frictional force (also called drag force) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers. Stokes' work is the basis of the falling sphere viscometer, in which the fluid is stationary in a vertical glass tube. A sphere of known size and…
The plume from this candle flame transitions from laminar to turbulent.
The Brezina equation
Universal sedimentation equation — drag coefficient, a function of Reynolds number and shape factor, 2D diagram