Comments on "Scattering Cancellation-Based Cloaking for the Maxwell--Cattaneo Heat Waves"

Abstract: A number of errors, both mathematical and conceptual, are identified, in a recent article by Farhat \textit{et al.}\ [Phys.\ Rev.\ Appl.\ \textbf{11}, 044089 (2019)] on cloaking of thermal waves in solids, and corrected. The differences between the two thermal flux laws considered in the latter article are also critically discussed, specifically showing that the chosen model does not, in fact, correspond to the Maxwell--Cattaneo hyperbolic (wave) theory of heat transfer.