Reddit reviews Electric Machinery

You are basically trying to build a permanent magnet synchronous motor. Get a book about motors; for example, this one (don't buy it from Amazon, get the international edition from ebay or find it in a library). Since the thing more or less relies on fringing fields, you would probably want to use some kind of 2D FEM tool for modeling it. The first-order equations for solenoids and such will basically be useless in this case -- it's pretty easy to calculate how much flux the coil produces, but next to impossible to tell how much of it the magnet will see. Obviously, this depends on the design of the various pole pieces and other magnetic components. Then of course you run into all sorts of fun things like saturation of the material, eddy currents, etc. In short, trial and error may not be a bad way to go.

All the classes I've taken, we just had chapters in different books that took care of three-phase things related to whatever subject we were having. We used a book called Electric Machinery(link further down), when dealing with three-phase in transformers, syncronous and asyncronous machines. Then we are using a book called Power Electronics for three-phase in, well.. power electronics :) It works pretty well :)

http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Machinery-A-E-Fitzgerald/dp/0073660094