Hydraulic simulations only get just one CPU core, even though your CPU has multiple cores and capacity to get them involved.
This multiple CPU cores actually works for Generalized Multiple Simulations for example, so it could be interesting to optimize the other simulation types: hydraulics, water quality,
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