Penetration of a heating pulse into a plasma layer was studied using the system of coupled nonlinear equations for electric field, electron, and ion temperatures. Numerical calculations of field structure and temperature evolution are performed both in the absence and in the presence of heat transfer. It is established that heat transfer leads to a more rapid penetration of the field near the illuminated surface of the layer and impairs penetration in regions of the layer far from this surface. We found that heat transfer promotes the creation of more favourable conditions for manifestation of the inverse skin effect. KEYWORDS electromagnetic pulse penetration, electron heating, inverse skin effect, ion heating, plasma layer 1
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