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The numerical routines employed include an optimizer, a finite-volume solver, and a mesh generator operating on geometries with the walls parameterized by B\u00e9zier curves. The optimizations are carried out for devices with different geometric characteristics (channel aspect ratio and length). The performance of the optimized devices is assessed for varying Reynolds numbers, velocity ratio between streams, and fluid rheology. Brownian dynamics simulations are also performed to evaluate the stretching and relaxation of \u03bb-DNA molecules in the devices. Overall, the optimized flow-focusing devices generate a homogeneous extensional flow over a range of conditions typically found in microfluidics. At high Weissenberg numbers, the extension of \u03bb-DNA molecules in the optimized flow-focusing devices is close to that obtained in an ideal planar extensional flow with an equivalent Hencky strain. 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