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    Reasons Why It Makes Sense to Use Thermal Simulation:
    1. It enables our designers to evaluate the temperature and heat performance of a design using sensitivity studies - not hardware prototypes. Examining the "what-if" factors using thermal simulation can save up to three months of trial and error.
    2. These heat loads and convective conditions can be directly applied to the design and can be graphically previewd for definition verification.
    3. We can specify temperature settings before running a simulation and review graphs of the results at each pass to visually inspect the cooling behavior.
    4. We can identify local sensitivity and visualize whether varying a certain parameter has a significant effect.
    5. We optimize designs by specifying multiple design parameters and a design goal in terms of cost, temperature heat flux, temperature gradients, or any other aspect of the design.
    6. Thermal simulation my minimize the number of fans, thereby lowering cost, noise, and failure rate.