In this paper we study the source-type solution for the heat equation with convection： ut = △u ＋ b·▽un for （x,t） ∈ ST→ RN × （0,T] and u（x,0） = δ（x） for x ∈ RN, where δ（x） denotes Dirac measure in = RN,N 2,n 0 and b = （b1,...,bN） ∈ RN is a vector. It is shown that there exists a critical number pc = N＋2 such that the source-type solution to the above problem exists and is unique if 0 N n 〈 pc and there exists a unique similarity source-type solution in the case n = N＋1 , while such a solution does not exist N if n 〉 pc. Moreover, the asymptotic behavior of the solution near the origin is studied. It is shown that when 0 〈 n 〈 N＋1 the convection is too weak and the short time behavior of the source-type solution near the origin N is the same as that for the heat equation without convection.
