Solar Leaf OrganOS: Prospective Evaluation of Bio-Inspired Rerouting for Photovoltaic Energy Resilience under Partial Shading and Module Failures

Solar Leaf OrganOS investigates whether bio-inspired hierarchical rerouting can improve simulated photovoltaic (PV) energy resilience under partial shading and module failures. The study uses a prospectively frozen computational design with progressively stronger controls, including conventional series routing, edge-budget-matched controls, random-mesh alternatives, a degree-preserving rewired null model, and a no-rerouting ablation. The private validation branch contains 2,880 datasheet-anchored physical PV simulation runs and reports engineering-scale outputs including power (W), accumulated energy (Wh), energy yield (%), and modeled cell temperature (°C). The main finding is not that leaf-vein geometry is universally optimal. The leaf-inspired architecture substantially outperformed constrained series and edge-budget-matched bypass controls under simulated failures. However, a degree-preserving rewired null generally outperformed the leaf topology, with the leaf architecture showing an average relative difference of approximately -6.9% under stressed conditions. Random-mesh controls also exhibited a stress-dependent crossover. These results indicate that redundant rerouting and network organization, rather than biological geometry alone, are the principal sources of resilience observed in the model. To preserve research integrity, negative results and counterexamples are reported alongside favorable results. This public-safe release includes: - Preprint manuscript - Public audit/reproduction harness - Condition-level statistical results - Bootstrap confidence-interval analysis - Random-mesh crossover visualization - Degree-matched counterexample visualization - Reproducibility documentation The public audit harness intentionally does not disclose proprietary/internal OrganOS topology-generation rules, routing logic, private seed schedules, or other implementation details that could reconstruct the protected architecture. Accordingly, the public harness is an audit implementation of the disclosed methodology rather than an exact reproduction of the private 2,880-run validation branch. Important limitation: Reported W and Wh values are datasheet-anchored simulation outputs. They are not field measurements, certified PV-system performance results, or claims of commercial installation efficiency. Author: M.-G. Kim Independent Researcher