Heat Transfer and Flow on the First Stage Blade Tip of a Power Generation Gas Turbine: Part 1 — Experimental Results

Ronald S. Bunker and Jeremy C. BaileyGeneral Electric Corporation, Schenectady, New YorkAll A. AmeriAYT Corporation, Brook Park, OhioPrepared for the44th Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress, Exposition, and Users' Symposiumsponsored by the International Gas Turbine Institute ofthe American Society of Mechanical EngineersIndianapolis, Indiana, June 7-10, 1999Prepared under Contract NAS3-98106National Aeronautics andSpace AdministrationGlenn Research Center

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