The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to the study of the porous medium model in contact with reservoirs and to, heuristically, obtain the hydrodynamic equation for this model, with the pursuit of starting the study of the hydrodynamic limit which guarantees that the evolution of the density of particles of this model is described by the weak solution of the hydrodynamic equation, namely, the porous medium equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The second part of the dissertation is dedicated to the study of the matrix representation method, the so-called matrix ansatz, which will be used to characterize the stationary measures of particle systems out of equilibrium. For warming up, we will use the symmetric simple exclusion process as a toy model to present the techniques used in this method. With those techniques, for the first time we obtained the second order correlation function for the symmetric simple exclusion process in contact with slow reservoirs, and in addition, we were able to obtain information about the steady state of the porous medium model in contact with reservoirs.