Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2000
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1995
B.S.M.E., University of Tennessee, 1993
B.A., Astronomy-Physics, University of Virginia, 1991
Dr. Finney has been a Research and Development Staff Member since 2002, following a post-doctoral research fellowship via Oak Ridge Associated Universities. His research at ORNL has focused on signal analysis from coal-fired boilers resulting in the commercial EPRI product, Flame Doctor ®, and in CFD modeling of and supporting experiments on the coating reactor used to produce fuel particles for the Advanced Gas Reactor program. His technical specialization areas include fluidization and multi-phase flows, combustion analysis and modeling, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos control.
- Federal Laboratory Consortium (Southeast) Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, 2005;
- Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and The Combustion Institute;
- Board Member of the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute, 2002–present;
- Webmaster for the Central States Section of The Combustion Institute, 2002–present;
- ORNL co-representative to the American Flame Research Committee;
- Research Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
- Contributor to and Webmaster for the ORNL/UTK Nonlinear Dynamics Interest Group;
- Reviewer for The Physical Review, ASME and SAE;
- Engineer-in-Training in Tennessee;
- Two United States patents.
Selected Recent Publications
Flynn TJ, Bailey RT, Fuller TA, Finney CEA, Daw CS, Stallings J, Himes R, Bermke R (2006). Applying nonlinear signal analysis technologies to flame scanner signals to improve staging of cyclone boilers for NO x control. Combined Power Plant Air Pollution Control “Mega” Symposium, EPRI-DOE-EPA-AWMA ( Baltimore MD).
Palacios A, Finney CEA, Daw CS, Cizmas P, O’Brien TJ (2004). Experimental analysis and visualization of spatio-temporal patterns in spouted fluidized beds. Chaos14(2): 499–509.
Daw CS, Finney CEA, Fuller TA, Flynn TJ, Bailey RT (2004). Real-time monitoring of dynamical state changes in staged coal combustion. In Nonlinear Dynamics of Production Systems, Radons G and Neugebauer R, editors, Wiley-VCH.
Daw CS, Finney CEA, Tracy ER (2003). A review of symbolic analysis of experimental data. Review of Scientific Instruments74(2): 915–930.
Flynn T, Bailey R, Fuller T, Daw S, Finney C, Stallings J (2003). Flame monitoring enhances burner management. Power Engineering, 2003 February, 50–54.
Fuller TA, Flynn TJ, Bailey RT, Daw CS, Finney CEA, Kersting K, Fields R, Bermke R, Stallings J (2003). Field experience with the Flame Doctor™ system. Combined Power Plant Air Pollution Control “Mega” Symposium, EPRI-DOE-EPA-AWMA ( Washington DC; 2003 May 19–22), Paper BR-1739.
Daw CS, Finney CEA, Kennel MB (2000). A symbolic approach for measuring temporal “irreversibility”. Physical Review E62(2): 1912–1921. |
