In this paper, we give a simple theorem on the waveform relaxation (WR) sol
ution for a system of nonlinear second-order differential equations. It is
shown that if the norm of certain matrices derived from the Jacobians of th
e system equations is less than one, then the WR solution converges. It is
also the first time that a convergence condition is obtained for this gener
al kind of nonlinear systems in the WR literarture. Numerical experiments a
re provided to confirm the theoretical analysis.