Instanton in turbulence

Strong rare fluctuations in turbulence must be local sharp maxima of probability. We hope to describe such flow configurations as the saddle-point configurations in the statistical path integral. The respective instanton method was developed by us long ago; now the computational conditions seem right to solve this central problem of fundamental turbulence theory. This way, we discovered a new mechanism of vorticity growth - by colliding waves - which has interesting similarity to the recent AI work on the Millennium problem of vorticity blow-up.