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The frequency of these events at small particle inertia is predicted but not measured accurately.","posed_since":"2006","precise":"Heavy particles with Stokes number $\\mathrm{St} = \\tau_p/\\tau_\\eta$ (particle response time over Kolmogorov time) form caustics where their velocity field becomes multivalued. Theory predicts a caustic formation rate $\\sim \\exp(-A/\\mathrm{St})$ at small St (Wilkinson, Mehlig, Bezuglyy 2006). Determine $A$, the prefactor and their $\\mathrm{Re}_\\lambda$ dependence in 3D Navier-Stokes turbulence.","problem_ref":"fdc7eaecfb482cf6bd31bb3dd5715240586d53f2ee415badf2f53716933a91a3","references":"","settled_by":"DNS over a decade in $\\mathrm{Re}_{\\lambda}$ and laboratory particle tracking measuring caustic rates at St from 0.05 to 0.5, fitted to the predicted form.","status_note":"A theory based on velocity-gradient statistics predicts sling-event rates and their growth with $\\mathrm{Re}_\\lambda$, validated by DNS at moderate $\\mathrm{Re}_\\lambda$ (Batge, Fouxon, Wilczek, arXiv:2208.05384); tests at cloud-like $\\mathrm{Re}_\\lambda$ are lacking.","title":"Rate of sling events and caustics for inertial 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