A burn model for trinitrotoluene (TNT)

Trinitrotoluene (TNT) is an explosive of historical importance with a wide variability of reported performance due to the number of ways to prepare it. In this work, we focus on making a consistent data set for an Arrhenius Wescott-Stewart-Davis (AWSD) burn model for pressed TNT at 1.630 g/cm3. We look at a variety of data for the calibration of the reactant and product equations of state (EOS) and produce a Davis form for each EOS. We perform the rate law calibrations based on recent gas gun experiments and historical diameter effect data. We begin to explore several different choices made in the modeling.