I built a small reproducible microbenchmark exploring when system energy becomes dominated by boundary crossings rather than intra-domain compute.
The model decomposes total energy into: C = C_intra + Σ V_b · c_b
Includes:
CLI sweeps
Elasticity metric (ε) as a dominance indicator
CSV outputs
Working draft paper
*DOI
Looking for critique, counter-examples, or prior related work I may have missed.