Gas flow focusing is a process in which a liquid jet is focussed with the aid of a gas flowing in parallel. The most important element is the nozzle, which must be designed in such a way that focusing takes place according to the user's requirements. In stream focussing, the shear force generated by the flow of the flowing gas has the largest influence on the jet velocity of the focused liquid. Using a numerical gradient-adjoint optimisation method, we attempted to change the shape of the nozzle in order to increase the shear force on the stream. Using this method, we have shown that the shear force per jet can be increased by more than 100 %.
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